科普

折纸与指数增长

Allen W.

折纸,听起来很简单,对嘛?

2011年,美国德克萨斯州圣马克中学师生们把长达公里的厕纸对折了次——2002年,9年前,这个记录是次。

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理论上,一张纸可以被无限折叠下去。实际上,折叠次数多了,纸张的内外受力会不均匀,导致纸张弹开,难以继续折叠。

以下是理论计算:

一张mm,米的纸

对折次,厚

对折次,厚

对折次,厚

对折次,厚米,千米

对折次,厚米,千米

对折次,厚米,万光年

对折次,厚米,亿光年

如果对折次,就厚米,亿光年!而目前测得的宇宙直径,为亿光年!

折纸次,你就是宇宙的神!

指数增长威力巨大,你是否要试试?

最后附上计算程序源代码:

#include<iostream>
using namespace std;
int main(){
  int a;              \\折叠次数
  float b=0.00001     \\单张纸厚度(米)
  cin>>a;
  for(int i=1;i<=a;i++) b*=2;
  cout<<b;
  return 0;
}

It sounds easy to fold paper, right?

In 2011, about km of toliet paper was folded times by teachers and students in St. Mark’s School Of Texas, USA. The record was still times 9 years ago, in 2002.

In theory(理论), a piece of paper can be folded infinitely(无限地). But in fact, if we fold the paper for many times, the stresses between each side of the paper are different, so we cannot keep folding a piece of paper forever.

Here are theoretical calculations(理论计算)

A piece of mm, m paper,

If we fold times, it will be m;

If we fold times, it will be m;

If we fold times, it will be m;

If we fold times, it will be m, that is km;

If we fold times, it will be m, that is km;

If we fold times, it will be m, that is millon light years;

If we fold times, it will be m, that is hundred millon light years;

And if we fold times, it will be m, that is hundred millon light years! Until now, as human’s knowledge, the length of space, is hundred millon light years!

If you fold a piece of paper for times, you will be the god of space.

Exponential growth(指数增长) has a great power, do you want to try?