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Specifies the nomenclature and shared semantics for a collection of datatypes commonly occuring in programming languages and software interfaces, referred to as the Language-Independent (LI) Datatypes. It specifies both primitive datatypes, in the sense of being defined ab initio without reference to other datatypes, and non-primitive datatypes, in the sense of being wholly or partly defined in terms of other datatypes. The specification of datatypes in this standard is "language-independent" in the sense that the datatypes specified are classes of datatypes of which the actual datatypes used in programming languages and other entities requiring the concept datatype are particular instances.