Pith Number

pith:65V3XA7Z

pith:2024:65V3XA7ZH4W67B2GXQIMF2G5ND

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Can ChatGPT pass a physics degree? Making a case for reformation of assessment of undergraduate degrees

Kevin A. Pimbblet, Lesley J. Morrell

arxiv:2412.01312 v1 · 2024-12-02 · physics.ed-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{65V3XA7ZH4W67B2GXQIMF2G5ND}

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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	2026-07-05T09:42:57.844620Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f76bbb83f93f2def8746bc10c2e8dd68fb2c29ac85ddb328dfa383841caed1ce

Aliases

arxiv: 2412.01312 · arxiv_version: 2412.01312v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2412.01312 · pith_short_12: 65V3XA7ZH4W6 · pith_short_16: 65V3XA7ZH4W67B2G · pith_short_8: 65V3XA7Z

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/65V3XA7ZH4W67B2GXQIMF2G5ND \
  | 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: f76bbb83f93f2def8746bc10c2e8dd68fb2c29ac85ddb328dfa383841caed1ce

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b490e659af736fcc5755e25044c0fdec097972b600355cc9bf0919eb89f4ef1c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.ed-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2024-12-02T09:27:17Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9f33e7534cb4e78713756c6299ca21ad5cc79de93242f17dd458c1b2a1b446ad"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2412.01312",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}