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Mountains and Valleys (Posted on 2006-07-19) Difficulty: 2 of 5
In origami there are two ways of folding a piece of paper. The usual way is to fold the paper upwards and if unfolded the crease is called a valley fold and from the side it looks like this: \/ If the paper is folded backward instead the crease is called a mountain fold and looks like this: /\.

If you take a strip of paper and fold it in half twice (left over right) and then unfold it without flipping you will get a figure that looks something like this from the side:

/\_/

Which consists of the following sequence of folds:

/\ \/ \/

Describe the sequence of folds if the original strip of paper had been folded over 10 times and then unfolded.

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Describe the sequence of folds | Comment 3 of 9 |
Jer has asked, " Describe the sequence of folds......"

Please note that my 'description' of 1's and 0's only reveals a pattern, which has not been tested, probably matches Dej Mar's semi-revelation of humps and bumps.

Come,

  Describe the sequence of folds
  Posted by brianjn on 2006-07-22 08:02:56
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