Pith Number

pith:6K6LMG5Y

pith:2026:6K6LMG5YGB753SMJEW5RBLBKDI

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Exploring the Value of Diverse LLM Explanations in Introductory Programming

Juho Leinonen, Kush Patel, Matt Littlefield, Paul Denny, Rayhona Nasimova, Seth Bernstein, Stephen MacNeil

arxiv:2606.28882 v1 · 2026-06-27 · cs.HC · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{6K6LMG5YGB753SMJEW5RBLBKDI}

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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	2026-06-30T01:16:55.855636Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f2bcb61bb8307fddc98925bb10ac2a1a30b8dd0fb2e6f64aabd89bca8dbedb0e

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.28882 · arxiv_version: 2606.28882v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.28882 · pith_short_12: 6K6LMG5YGB75 · pith_short_16: 6K6LMG5YGB753SMJ · pith_short_8: 6K6LMG5Y

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/6K6LMG5YGB753SMJEW5RBLBKDI \
  | 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: f2bcb61bb8307fddc98925bb10ac2a1a30b8dd0fb2e6f64aabd89bca8dbedb0e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "79005f630a84877c621930c901e300ff48037bfad78a09abec8f5528bd677284",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.HC",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-27T11:59:44Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "469f1886ae0f5a2240fd9ca09161ea2a5464d7f7a2ad414ee161249d2ab5c5c3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.28882",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}