On Wed, 2014-02-05 at 16:44 -0500, Ralph Jones wrote:
> When I read about someone having this sort of difficulty, I want to remind 
> about using a grid of evenly (equally) spaced lines. Align one edge of your 
> paper from gridline zero, on one corner, to gridline N (odd integer N=eleven, 
> in this case), on the other adjacent corner. Pick an even number 2M less than 
> N (2M=10 is good), and fold the lower corner to gridline 2M, creasing across 
> the paper. Now either M or N-M is even, so it's easy to crease that part of 
> the paper in half. Some folding sequence such as
> 
> [M,N-M]=[5,6], [8,3], [4,7], [2,9], [1,10], [6,5], [3,8], [7,4], [9,2], 
> [10,1] gets all N-1 creases to divide the paper into N sections. Crease each 
> section in 2,4,8 . . parts to get 2N, 4N, 8N . .  sections.
> 
> This is such a standard technique, I wonder how it is so very frequently 
> missed.
> 
> 
> Thank you and have a great day! 
> SVBE            (si vales, bene est)
> The early bird may get the worm, sure, but the second mouse gets the cheese.
> -
> Cheers, Ralph Jones
> 
>                                         
That *is* really nice: essentially Fujimoto's approximate algorithm with
a perfect first guess:-)

Neil

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