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The Unified Code for Units of Measure (the UCUM) is a system of codes for unambiguously representing measurement units to both humans and machines.

The code set includes all units defined in ISO 1000




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The Unified Code for Units of Measure (the UCUM) is a system of codes for unambiguously representing measurement units to both humans and machines.

The code set includes all units defined in ISO 1000
ISO 1000

International standard ISO 1000 is the ISO standard describing the International System of Units ....
, ISO 2955-1983, ANSI X3.50-1986, HL7 and ENV 12435, but explicitly and verifiably addresses the naming conflicts and ambiguities in those standards to resolve them. It provides for representations of units in 7 bit ASCII
ASCII

American Standard Code for Information Interchange , is a coding standard that can be used for interchanging information, if the information is expressed mainly by the written form of English words....
 for machine to machine communication, with unambiguous mapping between case-sensitive and case-insensitive representations.

A reference open-source implementation as a Java applet
Java applet

A Java applet is an applet delivered to the users in the form of Java bytecode. Java applets can run in a Web browser using a Java Virtual Machine , or in Sun Microsystems's AppletViewer, a stand-alone tool for testing applets....
 is available.