ISO 4217 "ruble". In addition to codes for most active national currencies ISO 4217 provides codes for "supranational" currencies, procedural purposes, and several things which are "similar to" currencies: The use of an initial letter "X" for these purposes is facilitated by the ISO 3166 rule that no official country code beginning with X will ever be assigned. Because of this rule ISO 4217 can use X codes without risk of clashing with a future country code. ISO 3166 country codes beginning with "X" are used for private custom use (reserved), never for official codes. For instance, the ISO 3166-based NATO country
ISO 80000-1 "P". Annex C introduces the concepts of "power quantities" and "root-power quantities", and deprecates "field quantity". ISO 80000-1 ISO 80000-1:2009 is a standard describing scientific and mathematical quantities and their units. The standard, whose full name is "Quantities and units Part 1: General" was developed by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), superseding ISO 31-0. It provides general information concerning quantities and units and their symbols, especially the International System of Quantities and the International System of Units, and defines these quantities and units. It is a part of a group of standards called ISO/IEC 80000. The standard is divided