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Why this number....?

I recently got a used Domino DF 700 and with it came a shoe box sized box of 8 x 40 Dominos.  Turns out there are 780 in the box.  Wonder how Festool got that number?  There are 6 plastic bags with 130 each in the box.  How did they arrive at 130?

Speaking of odd numbers does anybody understand why Baltic Birch plywood comes in 5' by 5' sheets?  5' is not particularly metric.


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Sold by weight?


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A ping pong table is 5' by 9'


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European sizing

5FT by 5FT is 1.5 square metres


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Perhaps you mean 1.5 meters square


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Yes - that's correct - thanks John


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HA! nobody commented on the drive by gloat...


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