Reams to Lakhs (rm to lakh)
1 ream equals 0.005 lakhs exactly.
How to convert reams to lakhs
To convert reams to lakhs, multiply the number of reams by 0.005. This factor is exact. To go the other way, multiply lakhs by 200.
lakhs = reams × 0.005
Example: 10 reams = 0.05 lakhs.
Large-number names differ around the world: this site uses the short scale (billion = 10⁹) by default, and lists the long-scale billion separately.
About these units
Ream (rm)
500 sheets of paper (20 quires), the standard retail package for printer paper. A short ream of 480 sheets survives for some specialty papers.
Ream comes from the Arabic rizmah, a bundle of paper, passing through Spanish resma and Old French reyme; the Moors introduced cotton papermaking to Spain. Its size has varied. The modern standard, 500 sheets or 20 quires of 25, is the ISO and DIN definition and what retail paper almost always means. A short ream of 480 sheets, 20 quires of 24, was formerly the British standard and survives for tissue, greaseproof, handmade, and blotting papers. J. S. Bach's Weimar manuscript paper was ordered by the 480-sheet ream.
Other versions include the 516-sheet printer's or perfect ream, the 504-sheet envelope-paper ream, and the 472-sheet mill ream for handmade paper, which was 18 quires of 24 good sheets plus two 20-sheet quires of damaged ones. In 1922 the UK set machine-made writing and printing paper at 500 sheets. ISO 4046-3:2002 defines a ream as a pack of 500 identical sheets and recommends another term, such as pack, for other counts.
1 ream = 500 pieces (exactly).
Sources: Wikipedia: Units of paper quantity
Lakh (lakh)
One hundred thousand (10⁵). The standard unit in the Indian numbering system, written 1,00,000.
Gambling stakes may have named the lakh. The Sanskrit word lakṣa originally meant a mark, a target or a stake in gambling, and in the Classical Sanskrit of the Gupta era it became the numeral for 100,000. English borrowed it from South Asia, and other languages did too: in Malay and Indonesian, laksa means 10,000 instead. The Indian numbering system gives a name to nearly every second power of ten, which is why a hundred thousand gets its own word rather than being called ten myriads or a hundred thousands.
A lakh is 100,000, written 1,00,000 under Indian digit grouping: the first three digits from the right form one group and every later group has two digits. It is the everyday system in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, where it is preferred over the international one. Rupee amounts are stated in lakhs, so 150,000 rupees is 1.5 lakh. Indian English also uses lakhs of as a loose phrase for very many, and formal publications usually give foreign currencies in the international system and rupees in lakhs and crores.
1 lakh = 100,000 pieces (exactly).
Sources: Wikipedia: Lakh; Wikipedia: Indian numbering system
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