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Take out a piece of paper and a pencil, I am going to ask you to write some letters in your sheet of paper and then I am going to challenge you to fold the sheet of paper... with a twist!<\/p>\n\n

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Photo by Thomas Renaud on Unsplash<\/figcaption><\/figure>

Setup<\/a><\/h2>\n

Seriously though, please take out a piece of paper and lay it out horizontally (or in \"landscape mode\", were the piece of paper a mobile device).<\/p>\n

Now I need you to crease your sheet of paper in half, along a horizontal line; then I need you to crease it in half along a vertical line, and then in half again, along a vertical line.<\/p>\n

In the end, you should have your piece of paper creased like this:<\/p>\n

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Except that your creases should be nicely centered, unlike the drawing I made... Oh well!<\/p>\n

Problem statement<\/a><\/h2>\n

Now the challenge is the following: I am going to ask you to write the letters ABCDEFGH<\/code> in the rectangles you created and I need you to fold the piece of paper in such a way that,<\/p>\n