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Quorten Blog 1

First blog for all Quorten's blog-like writings

Why are printer papers bunched into reams of 500? Beyond thinking about the nice number of sheets that this makes in its own right, I’ve come to realize there’s another important reason. This makes the stack somewhere around 2 inches to 2.5 inches tall. These dimensions help ensure that the package is relatively easy to handle by hand, both inside and out. As it turns out, the height of my dust suppression DSLR lens changing and film negative box has an opening of 4.5 inches, which allows it to be realtively easy for most hand sizes to reach inside. DLSR cameras themselves have a grip with a few inches in height, similar to these dimensions. Finally, cereal boxes themselves have this approximate thickness in their dimensions.