Talk:Nikana Prime/@comment-96.231.221.57-20160218222448/@comment-67.171.217.239-20160219044257

That folding is just used to mitigate the shitty, high-carbon steel that Japanese sword-smiths had to use to begin with. The folding lets them distribute it so that they could make it more likely that katanas wouldn't just snap when you used them.

Aside from that, there's no real proof that a katana folded a ridiculous amount of times is better than one folded a little less, also. There's literally no reason it would be.

Also also, that guy that said that because paper folded 100 times would exceed the size of the universe, so katanas are only folded 10 max is an idiot. Sword-smiths fold steel at extremely high temperatures, so when the metal is folded, it reforms back into one solid chunk again, not a cold, folded piece. It's like how I can just sit here and "fold" silly-putty indefinitely.