Standardiarvot
Standardiarvot is a proposed international standard for encoding, validating, and exchanging numerical values across software systems and measurement instruments. It aims to create a common framework for representing numbers with associated context, reducing ambiguity in data interchange and scientific computation.
The term blends “standard” with arvot, a word meaning values in several Nordic and Baltic languages, signaling
Technical features include explicit unit metadata, support for uncertainty or error margins, and defined rounding policies.
History and governance place Standardiarvot within the work of the International Data Standards Consortium (IDSC), which
See also: data standardization, units of measurement, decimal arithmetic.