Grammage is specified in avoirdupois pounds and the sheet count of a paper ream is usually 500 sheets. However, the mass specified is not the mass of the ream that is sold to the customer. Instead, it is the mass of the uncut "basis ream" in which the sheets have some larger size (parent size). Often, this is a size used during the manufacturing process before the paper was cut to the dimensions in which it is sold. So, to compute the mass per area, one must know The standard dimensions and sheet count of a ream vary according to the
Norman B. Ream he opened a store. Later, Ream moved to Iowa, where he purchased cattle and grains on credit and sold them to farmers on credit. He ran up debt as a result of a crop failure, but managed to pay it off, and moved to Chicago in 1877. Shortly after, Ream joined the Chicago Board of Trade. Ream would rise early to talk to the people at the Union Stock Yards before the Board of Trade opened at 10AM. Over the year, Ream became an investment advisor to business magnates like J. P. Morgan, Marshall Field, George Pullman. Later, with Robert