Pith Number

pith:6ZX6KQXW

pith:2018:6ZX6KQXWR33UDEOOYNFRKUMVWB

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Causal Testing: Finding Defects' Root Causes

Alexandra Meliou, Brittany Johnson, Yuriy Brun

arxiv:1809.06991 v2 · 2018-09-19 · cs.SE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{6ZX6KQXWR33UDEOOYNFRKUMVWB}

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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.

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First computed	2026-07-05T00:42:17.742374Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f66fe542f68ef74191cec34b155195b058f9a7311837e1ec43108c468da9d719

Aliases

arxiv: 1809.06991 · arxiv_version: 1809.06991v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1809.06991 · pith_short_12: 6ZX6KQXWR33U · pith_short_16: 6ZX6KQXWR33UDEOO · pith_short_8: 6ZX6KQXW

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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/6ZX6KQXWR33UDEOOYNFRKUMVWB \
  | 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: f66fe542f68ef74191cec34b155195b058f9a7311837e1ec43108c468da9d719

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9d9b7e5b94e8a783965f1b8b4d669892a2b146628860c083fa242df997839275",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2018-09-19T03:02:38Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7f45d07aa436e4c7a28d773f96903fadbbc0f79eaa27b2b48444f987acd1e4fe"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1809.06991",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}