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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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