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Its primary purpose is machine-to-machine communication rather than communication between humans.

It provides for representations of units in 7 bit ASCII for machine-to-machine communication, with unambiguous mapping between case-sensitive and case-insensitive representations.

The UCUM base units form a set of mutually independent dimensions as required by dimensional analysis.

There are four differences between the two sets of base units.

While these are not considered metric units by UCUM, UCUM nevertheless allows metric prefixes to be used with them where this is common practice.

Arbitrary units are not commensurable with any other unit; measurements in arbitrary units cannot be compared with or converted into measurements in any other units.

Many of the recognized arbitrary units are used in biochemistry and medicine.

The Unified Code for Units of Measure, version 2.1.

Regenstrief Institute and the UCUM Organization.

The Unified Code for Units of Measure (XML specification), version 2.1.

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.

PMID 10094068. Retrieved 2019-12-20.

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