Pith Number

pith:7SOMEB5E

pith:2026:7SOMEB5E7Z2KJSYNW4JECRPNET

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Correct Answer Trap: Pedagogically-Grounded Detection and Feedback for Hidden Misconceptions

Moiz Imran, Sahan Bulathwela

arxiv:2606.23205 v1 · 2026-06-22 · cs.CY · cs.AI · cs.IR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{7SOMEB5E7Z2KJSYNW4JECRPNET}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-06-23T03:14:12.913002Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

fc9cc207a4fe74a4cb0db7124145ed24d6e86d59ed80f542efe84f1f2c23b4cd

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.23205 · arxiv_version: 2606.23205v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.23205 · pith_short_12: 7SOMEB5E7Z2K · pith_short_16: 7SOMEB5E7Z2KJSYN · pith_short_8: 7SOMEB5E

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/7SOMEB5E7Z2KJSYNW4JECRPNET \
  | 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: fc9cc207a4fe74a4cb0db7124145ed24d6e86d59ed80f542efe84f1f2c23b4cd

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "00d546b461ed133f91302cf530d256d523282cc4069740643455b06ac2540462",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "cs.IR"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CY",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-22T11:51:17Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7b682d6bd6a4fb7a35a88dbe04a0d8fb64780d9b8de07fec9891b9539dfc9014"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.23205",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}