Product and service classifications: Difference between revisions

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    {{Q|The four primary levels of the code are: Segment, Family, Class and Commodity. Each level is coded in two decimal digits, with '00' treated specially to give segments, families and classes their own eight-digit codes.|Wikipedia|How is the [[w:UNSPSC|UNSPSC]] structured?}}
    {{Q|The four primary levels of the code are: Segment, Family, Class and Commodity. Each level is coded in two decimal digits, with '00' treated specially to give segments, families and classes their own eight-digit codes.|Wikipedia|How is the [[w:UNSPSC|UNSPSC]] structured?}}


    {{Q|4 time 2 pieces base10 characters equals 100^4 which makes 100 million combinations|Lowest Troll|limit of address space of [[w:UNSPSC]]}}
    The UNSPSC has a theoretical address space of slightly under 100 million unique "commodity" ids as follows:
     
    # Segment: 99 possiblities
    ## Family 99*99 possiblilities
    ### Class 99^3 possibilities
    #### Commodity 99^4 possibilities
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