BMAD Posted August 25, 2015 Report Share Posted August 25, 2015 Describe the dimensions needed to fold a single sheet of paper into a sphere. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Rainman Posted August 31, 2015 Report Share Posted August 31, 2015 Theorema Egregium states that it's impossible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Pickett Posted August 25, 2015 Report Share Posted August 25, 2015 (edited) Smart-aleck answer:I can take any shape/size paper and crumple it into a ball...VOILA! a single sheet of paper "folded" into a sphere!But seriously...I think we're starting to get into Map projections here...There's probably a "more correct" answer, the but Goode Homolosine projection is pretty darn close... Edited August 25, 2015 by Pickett Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 phil1882 Posted August 31, 2015 Report Share Posted August 31, 2015 (edited) assuming you also had scissors... you could cut the paper in such a way that it looks like a bunch of orange slices put together.since you want a sphere, you would want the radius of the sphere *pi to be the height of the rectangle, and diameter of the sphere*pi to be the width.that is the rectangle would be twice as wide as tall. Edited August 31, 2015 by phil1882 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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