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  • ANSI INCITS 50 : 1986

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    INFORMATION SYSTEMS - REPRESENTATIONS FOR U.S. CUSTOMARY, SI, AND OTHER UNITS TO BE USED IN SYSTEMS WITH LIMITED CHARACTER SETS

    Available format(s):  Hardcopy, PDF

    Withdrawn date:  21-11-2002

    Language(s):  English

    Published date:  01-01-1997

    Publisher:  Information Technology Industry Council

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    1. Scope and Purpose
       1.1 Scope
       1.2 Purpose
    2. Related Standards
       2.1 American National Standards
       2.2 ISO Standards
    3. Rules
       3.1 General
       3.2 Narrative Free Text: Rule No. 1
       3.3 Multiplication: Rule No. 2
       3.4 Ratio (Division): Rule No. 3
       3.5 Positive Exponents: Rule No. 4
       3.6 Negative Exponents: Rule No. 5
       3.7 Prefix Usage: Rule No. 6
    4. Specifications
    5. Representations of U.S. Customary Units
    6. Representations of SI Units
    7. Representations of Prefixes
    Appendixes
    Appendix A General Considerations
    Appendix B List of Representations for Units Used in This
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    Contains representations for units of weights and measures to be used in data inter- change. The representations apply to names of U.S. customary units and internationally recognized' units and their decimal multiples and submultiples.

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    Committee X3L8
    Document Type Standard
    Publisher Information Technology Industry Council
    Status Withdrawn

    Standards Referenced By This Book - (Show below) - (Hide below)

    ASTM E 1467 : 1994 Standard Specification for Transferring Digital Neurophysiological Data Between Independent Computer Systems
    ANSI INCITS 26 : 80(R1991) HOLLERITH PUNCHED CARD CODE
    ASTM E 1713 : 1995 Standard Specification for Transferring Digital Waveform Data Between Independent Computer Systems (Withdrawn 2004)
    ASTM E 1467 : 1994 : R2000 Standard Specification for Transferring Digital Neurophysiological Data Between Independent Computer Systems (Withdrawn 2004)
    ASTM E 1394 : 1997 SPECIFICATION FOR TRANSFERRING INFORMATION BETWEEN CLINICAL INSTRUMENTS AND COMPUTER SYSTEMS

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    IEEE 260 : 1978 UNITS OF MEASUREMENT (SI UNITS, CUSTOMARY INCH-POUND UNITS, AND CERTAIN OTHER UNITS) STANDARD LETTER SYMBOLS FOR
    ISO 2955:1983 Information processing — Representation of SI and other units in systems with limited character sets
    ANSI Z39.19 : 1980 THESAURUS STRUCTURE, CONSTRUCTION, AND USE, GUIDELINES FOR,
    ISO/IEC 646:1991 Information technology ISO 7-bit coded character set for information interchange
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