Units of paper quantity as ISO 4046. In Europe, the DIN 6730 standard for Paper and Board includes a definition of 1 ream of A4 80gsm (80 g/m) paper equals 500 sheets. The word 'ream' derives from Old French "reyme", from Spanish "resma", from Arabic "rizmah" "bundle" (of paper), from "rasama", "collect into a bundle". (The Moors brought manufacture of cotton paper to Spain.) Early variant rym (late 15c.) suggests a Dutch influence. (cf. Du. "riem"), probably during the time of Spanish Habsburg control of the Netherlands. The number of sheets in a ream has varied locally over the centuries, often according to the
Dwight Ream Dwight Ream Dwight Thoburn Ream (March 23, 1892 – November 20, 1954) was an American football and basketball coach and college athletics administrator. He was the 16th head football coach at Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas, serving for two seasons, from 1920 to 1921, and compiling a record of 8–7–4. In the 1920 game against Kansas Normal under coach Homer Woodson Hargiss, Kansas Normal fullback Jack Reeves sustained a neck injury that resulted in his death. Ream was also the head basketball coach at Washburn in 1921–22, tallying a mark of 8–9. Ream died after a long illness (heart ailment)