It may look like a prank but these mathematics students from St. Mark’s School in Southborough, Massachusetts aren’t toilet papering the famed infinite corridor at MIT. Using intricate choreography and brute force, they’re breaking a paper-folding record by completing 13 folds, a challenge that students at the school have been tackling for seven years with the help of teacher James Tanton.
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The final result was a 1.5-metre wide and 76-centimetre high wad comprising 8192 layers of paper.
I can’t think of a better way to improve society and expand our knowledge than by spending seven years figuring out how to fold 1.2 kilometers of toilet paper thirteen times.