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Feb 16, 2005 | 05:19 PM

#31

PeaceLove&S2K

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Originally Posted by Johnny--2K' date='Feb 16 2005, 07:53 PM

41 - The names of the continents all end with the same letter with which they start.

this cant be true!

"North America"
"South America"

Feb 16, 2005 | 07:09 PM

#32

JonBoy

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13 - There are only 4 words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.

What about "ferrous, fabulous, callous", just to name a few?

Feb 16, 2005 | 07:15 PM

#33

Russian

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Quote:

Originally Posted by JonBoy' date='Feb 16 2005, 11:09 PM

13 - There are only 4 words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.

What about "ferrous, fabulous, callous", just to name a few?

none of those end in dous

Feb 16, 2005 | 08:29 PM

#34

tritium_pie

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Originally Posted by Russian' date='Feb 16 2005, 06:15 PM

If only there was some way to test this......

Feb 17, 2005 | 08:36 AM

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magician

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Originally Posted by The Raptor' date='Feb 16 2005, 07:46 AM

Richard Millhouse Nixon was the first US president whose name contains all the letters from the word criminal.

Richard Milhous Nixon.

At least spell it correctly.

Feb 17, 2005 | 08:50 AM

#36

Gink5

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Magician do you know know why paoper can't be folded more then 7 times? If you read above, i remember it having to do with the thinkness of the paper and a log function.

Feb 17, 2005 | 09:05 AM

#37

turbodriven

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I work with blueprints... and I tried it with big 3 foot by 4 foot sheets of paper. I managed to get 8 folds... but it wasn't pretty. The 8th barely looked like a fold at all.

Feb 17, 2005 | 09:12 AM

#38

cyber_x

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I'd always remembered the maximum number of folds possible to be 9, so I got curious enough to look it up (yes, it's a slow day at work):

http://mathforum.org/library/drmath/view/60675.html

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Folding.html

Feb 17, 2005 | 09:28 AM

#39

Gink5

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Originally Posted by turbodriven' date='Feb 17 2005, 10:05 AM

I work with blueprints... and I tried it with big 3 foot by 4 foot sheets of paper. I managed to get 8 folds... but it wasn't pretty. The 8th barely looked like a fold at all.

Thats really the point. You may be able to fold it more but it may not be in half. The amount of paper on the outside of the radius is greater then the paper on the inside of the fold. So it really gets to the point where the fold isn't possible.