Lenny Conundrum

Suppose you had a life-size map of Neopia, made of paper. The thickness of the paper is 0.1 millimetres.

Now, suppose you fold it in half. Then you fold it in half again, and again, and again. In all, you fold it in half 40 times.

How thick would the folded paper be? Please give your answer in metres, round to the nearest metre, and exclude any punctuation or extra information.

Yeah, easy peasy! Ok, well, maybe when I’m not half asleep I can make the calculations… besides, I don’t trust myself after my failiure in last week’s conundrum… I was off by 100 m/s…

In other Neopets related news… I’m applying for adopting Numax. He’s a female at the moment, but the current owner said she didn’t mind if I turned her into a male after the adoption, so I went ahead and did the application with Numax as a male. The faerie xweetok works so well as a male, I just had to have one, and Numax is such a perfect name! Here’s my application. Opinions? I have till the 20th to keep spicing it up! Maybe, just maybe…. I can finish a drawing before then… that would really give me some edge.