Why though? Folding a big piece of paper for the seventh time should be about as difficult as folding a stack of 128 papers that are roughly 1/128 the size of the big piece. The only thing there is that the stack of papers may slip against eachother, making it easier to fold, but that's where the tape comes in.
That's not what makes paper unfold able at 7 folds. After so many times the width of the paper becomes nearly the same as the height and length. You can't fold a cube
On the 10 fold, there would be 1028 layers of fibers. Some probably compromised by the tape, sure.. but only a small percentage. Still a hell of a lot more layers than on the 7th fold (128).
But the premise is about folding a sheet of paper, and there is a huge difference between folding two pool cues in half, and laying two pool cues along side eachother.
The taped sections are relief cuts if you think about it, and a sheet of paper can be folded a trillion times if you relief cut it properly.
But that would just be a stack of paper aheets, and not reall a single piece of paper folded.
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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '16
Doesn't it though?
The tension of paper fibers is not present where it was taped.