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Fold a paper to the Moon
A sheet of paper is about 0.1 mm thick. Fold it in half and the stack is twice as thick. Fold again: twice as thick again.
Try it: type your guess first, then fold.
Only 42 folds: 0.1 mm × 2⁴² ≈ 440,000 km — past the Moon, 384,400 km away. (Real paper can only be folded a handful of times; this is a thought experiment.)
Doubling doesn't add the same amount each time. It adds everything you already have.