one piece of paper should only be folded 7 times, but not 9 times as mentioned by the other person, you can try if you dont believe
as there is a maximum for folding one paper, the maximum for folding 10 paper would be even much smaller, let say 5 times (actually should be even less times, you can try yourself, i have tried 3 paper, and the maximum time is already 6 times)
let the thickness of one paper be t
Case1: fold 10 paper individually for 7 times, and put them together
the final thickness= (t x 2 to power 7) x 10 paper = 1280 t
Case2: fold 10 paper together for 5 times
the final thickness= (t x 10 paper )x 2 to power 5 = 320 t
obviously, you can have a larger thickness in case 1 than case 2 as 1280 t > 320t
2006-12-02 21:31:49 補充:
this is mainly due to the stress applied to the paper cannot exceed the elastic limit of the paper for it to deform, and at the same time less than the breaking point of the paper
2006-12-02 21:35:39 補充:
as the paper is not an elasitc substance, when you keep on folding it, the folding stress applied, is used to acculmate to deform the paper, but still not deforming it to be able to be folded.
2006-12-02 21:35:49 補充:
in the caes that you fold 10 paper together, the stress is shared among 10 paper to acculmulate to deform all of them, so you can fold them for less time