Grammage are the same weight paper having different cut size. However, a sheet of common copy paper that has a basis weight of does not have the same mass as the same size sheet of coarse paper (newsprint). In the former case, the standard ream is 500 sheets of paper, and in the latter, 500 sheets of paper. Here are some basic ream sizes for various types of paper. Units are inches except where noted. Sheets can be cut into four sheets, a standard for business stationery known conventionally as "letter sized paper". So, the ream became commonly used. The book-paper
Toilet paper human history dates back to the 6th century AD, in early medieval China. In 589 AD the scholar-official Yan Zhitui (531–591) wrote about the use of toilet paper: During the later Tang dynasty (618–907 AD), an Arab traveller to China in the year 851 AD remarked: During the early 14th century, it was recorded that in modern-day Zhejiang province alone there was an annual manufacturing of toilet paper amounting to ten million packages of 1,000 to 10,000 sheets of toilet paper each. During the Ming dynasty (1368–1644 AD), it was recorded in 1393 that an annual supply of 720,000 sheets