Pith Number

pith:442ZY6XX

pith:2022:442ZY6XXMIUYAOHQBOAVMTZ6QQ

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An Empirical Study of Package Management Issues via Stack Overflow

Bodin Chinthanet, Christoph Treude, Kenichi Matsumoto, Raula Gaikovina Kula, Syful Islam, Takashi Ishio

arxiv:2211.11197 v2 · 2022-11-21 · cs.SE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{442ZY6XXMIUYAOHQBOAVMTZ6QQ}

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-07-05T05:41:33.797805Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e7359c7af762298038f00b81564f3e8429939b08b34b1f45d46c3b6b19d03021

Aliases

arxiv: 2211.11197 · arxiv_version: 2211.11197v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2211.11197 · pith_short_12: 442ZY6XXMIUY · pith_short_16: 442ZY6XXMIUYAOHQ · pith_short_8: 442ZY6XX

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/442ZY6XXMIUYAOHQBOAVMTZ6QQ \
  | 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: e7359c7af762298038f00b81564f3e8429939b08b34b1f45d46c3b6b19d03021

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f3f7dac5ef4b670d52fa0acd78060e3698e71caa43a7daa726a4a8b7b40911f8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2022-11-21T06:11:55Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "82bc4e93d7bf0caeeeded2602be04ce039b67daca6cacf0234c2cace5e2761fa"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2211.11197",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}