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Update SPEC.md
Updated as per @chrisxie-fw comments

Signed-off-by: Asim Hussain <[email protected]>
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jawache authored Oct 8, 2024
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### Ease of understanding
A label that is hard to understand or requires expertise unavailable to most software consumers would defeat the purpose of adding transparency and clarity.

So, the SCER shall use common terms on the label instead of more scientific terminology.

Common terms and their scientific equivalent Shall be defined clearly in the SCER specification to avoid interpretation risks.

SCER labels shall be uncluttered and have a clear and simple design that Shall be easily understood.

### Ease of Verification
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Any computation of a SCI score for the SCER label SHALL adhere to all requirements of the SCI specification.

> Note: SCI is a Software Carbon Efficiency Specification computed as a "Carbon per Functional Unit" of a software product. For example, Carbon per Prompt for a Large Language Model.
> Note: SCI is a Software Carbon Efficiency Specification computed as an "Carbon per Functional Unit" of a software product. For example, Carbon per Prompt for a Large Language Model.

## Presentation Guidelines

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### SCI Score:
The presentation of the SCI score Shall follow this template

`[Decimal Value] Carbon per [Functional Unit]`
`[Decimal Value] gCO2eq per [Functional Unit]`

- Where `[Decimal Value]` is the SCI score itself
- Where the common term `Carbon` Shall be used to represent the more technical term `CO2e` (Carbon Dioxide Equivalent)
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