Paper Thickness Calculator

How do you Calculate Paper Thickness?

When you are trying to find the thickness of paper when you have a stack of papers, you will need to gather values for the following variables:

• Stack height/total thickness


• Number of pieces of paper in the stack

• PT = Paper Thickness


• PST = Paper Stack Thickness, or the total height of the stack of papers


• TS = Total Sheets of paper in the stack that we are evaluating

Understanding Your Results

Your answer will be the total width of a single sheet of paper from the stack of papers that you specified. For example, if the answer is .01 inches than each of the pieces of paper in the stack are that thick. NOTE: This calculator will only work if all the pieces of paper in the stack are the same, if they are different this will not be accurate.

How to Use the Paper Thickness Tool

The steps involved with using this tool include:

1. Enter the height or thickness of the stack of papers.


2. Enter the total sheets of paper in the stack.


3. Ensure your entries are accurate and that the stack height unit of measurement is set to what you would want it to be.


4. Hit calculate and get your answer!

Example Calculation

Let's say we are working in an office and we are in charge of the stockroom. We notice a very large pile of blank pieces of paper that have been sitting there for a while. We measure that the stack of papers is 10 inches tall and consists of 5 bundles of 200 sheets of paper, so there is a total of 1,000 pieces of paper. We can enter 10 into the first field for stack height and then enter 1,000 into the total pieces of paper field.

We can now hit calculate to get the width of each piece of the paper in the stack, .01 inches. We can convert this to another unit, if we choose centimeters the answer is automatically converted to be .0254 centimeters.