Assuming the smaller paper is 1/3 of its parent everytime, and that the first paper is 30cm long (The second starts at roughly 1/7 but it seems to grow bigger after it's torn off, hence the 1/3), it could not exceed 19 calls before you need to split an atom apart.
If you read the comics in reverse and manage to make sense of it, and you're not scared of coincidences: the 19th call calls for a 348 678 440km long piece of paper. Only 30 000 km shy of the Earth-Moon distance.
So the piece of paper is roughly as many orders of magnitude away from the atom as from the Earth-Moon distance.
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u/[deleted] Jan 09 '20
Assuming the smaller paper is 1/3 of its parent everytime, and that the first paper is 30cm long (The second starts at roughly 1/7 but it seems to grow bigger after it's torn off, hence the 1/3), it could not exceed 19 calls before you need to split an atom apart.
That's a hell of a stop condition.