Pith Number

pith:APSDNWQN

pith:2014:APSDNWQNSA53GNLR45F2CFFJSZ

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Gaming the System: Video Games as a Theoretical Framework for Instructional Design

Ian D. Beatty

arxiv:1401.6716 v1 · 2014-01-27 · physics.ed-ph · cs.CY

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{APSDNWQNSA53GNLR45F2CFFJSZ}

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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	2026-05-18T03:01:00.919278Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

03e436da0d903bb33571e74ba114a9964d3b1cfff18819b421cb29da87547cfe

Aliases

arxiv: 1401.6716 · arxiv_version: 1401.6716v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1401.6716 · pith_short_12: APSDNWQNSA53 · pith_short_16: APSDNWQNSA53GNLR · pith_short_8: APSDNWQN

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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/APSDNWQNSA53GNLR45F2CFFJSZ \
  | 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: 03e436da0d903bb33571e74ba114a9964d3b1cfff18819b421cb29da87547cfe

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "13a3c66b17ed845191d31b4e9f41f930e8123acb7be11d7d7be0828132f30eb7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CY"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.ed-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2014-01-27T02:05:30Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "194a9f30cd5df4f046ccc5cfcfced89498434f466a905dc72e0a180f9540f297"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1401.6716",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}