Hatarakanai Futari - Vol. 28 Ch. 1764 - Fun Quiz Time

[MangaDex]

 

[KajurN]

It's a math thought experiment, the point is that it quickly becomes a ridiculously high number after just a few folds.

 

[totallytotally]

I like when they fold things in the 100,000 ton hydraulic press and it ever so quickly just reaches a point where it explodes instead of folding again.

 

[MisterMemeDaddy]

It feels like there was a pun in there that got mangled in translation but I don’t know what it would be.

 

[KingZantair]

Haah? How are you getting a vast distance as the result of folding a paper? The answer should either be some sorta microscopic distance, as it'd be incredibly small, or some large amount of pressure, as it'd be impossibly difficult to fold. I'd even take a black hole over it.

 

[rmrs]

Haah? How are you getting a vast distance as the result of folding a paper? The answer should either be some sorta microscopic distance, as it'd be incredibly small, or some large amount of pressure, as it'd be impossibly difficult to fold. I'd even take a black hole over it.

Maybe it was meant to be "what length would you need to fold it 100 times"? I only read about it recently, but apparently the world record for folding a paper in half is 12 times, set in 2002 by a high schooler. She needed a piece of tissue paper that was 4000ft (1.2km) long.

 

[Threacon]

Haah? How are you getting a vast distance as the result of folding a paper? The answer should either be some sorta microscopic distance, as it'd be incredibly small, or some large amount of pressure, as it'd be impossibly difficult to fold. I'd even take a black hole over it.

i feel like it's rather the height/thickness rather than the dimension of the rectangle

 

[FearlessDawg]

The idea is that if you could fold it 100 times rather than the usual 7 or 8 it would grow to be basically microscopically thin but extremely long

 

[savi0r]

some of you need to stay in school or go back to it. bonus points for the lad who typed out an anime noise. mamoru is asking how thick a newspaper would be if you could theoretically fold it over itself 100 times, which results in a huge number. this is a classic example of exponential growth and how fast things can accumulate when you double them.

there’s no pun lost in translation, it’s just amusing to see haruko thinking that newspapers are scary/amazing when the whole point is the math behind the riddle.