Pith Number

pith:2MIYVJPK

pith:2026:2MIYVJPKNUSBA5G4XSOMBZBM2E

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LangChoiceBench: Measuring and Explaining Programming-Language Choice in LLMs

Helen Yannakoudakis, Jie M. Zhang, Lukas Twist, Twm Stone

arxiv:2608.06041 v1 · 2026-08-06 · cs.SE · cs.CL

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{2MIYVJPKNUSBA5G4XSOMBZBM2E}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-08-07T01:39:28.583719Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d3118aa5ea6d241074dcbc9cc0e42cd13d2d8d75a9dfb831e354c0a0c1e3004e

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.06041 · arxiv_version: 2608.06041v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.06041 · pith_short_12: 2MIYVJPKNUSB · pith_short_16: 2MIYVJPKNUSBA5G4 · pith_short_8: 2MIYVJPK

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/2MIYVJPKNUSBA5G4XSOMBZBM2E \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: d3118aa5ea6d241074dcbc9cc0e42cd13d2d8d75a9dfb831e354c0a0c1e3004e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f6e1dc46699ac790fcf28d2abae04b807eeb8248b48ec6780f23b64c6ab803b2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CL"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-06T13:52:16Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4d4d67b2f808f4417d190f67564a88a62d81094f2e3ab2154456673d1a7e342c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.06041",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}