Is percent yield based on grams or moles?

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Is percent yield based on grams or moles? Thanks.
 
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If I remember correctly $$yield=\frac {actual yield}{theoretical yield}$$so as long as you calculate and measure the same units (for an individual constituent) in should not matter.
 
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