Pith Number

pith:BPBVLFKL

pith:2020:BPBVLFKL2ENXDXY7A5LTI77QF5

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Do We Need Improved Code Quality Metrics?

Diomidis Spinellis, Tushar Sharma

arxiv:2012.12324 v1 · 2020-12-22 · cs.SE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BPBVLFKL2ENXDXY7A5LTI77QF5}

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Record completeness

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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.

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2 papers in Pith

Benchmark of Benchmarks: Unpacking Influence and Code Repository Quality in LLM Safety Benchmarks

Sustainable Code Generation Using Large Language Models: A Systematic Literature Review

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T02:01:34.436489Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0bc355954bd11b71df1f0757347ff02f6ff9bae1ff8341dc85016ce6645c6d7f

Aliases

arxiv: 2012.12324 · arxiv_version: 2012.12324v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2012.12324 · pith_short_12: BPBVLFKL2ENX · pith_short_16: BPBVLFKL2ENXDXY7 · pith_short_8: BPBVLFKL

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/BPBVLFKL2ENXDXY7A5LTI77QF5 \
  | 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: 0bc355954bd11b71df1f0757347ff02f6ff9bae1ff8341dc85016ce6645c6d7f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "aa7fe4a703e47805e08e079b62aa98f103a06a48e6821ad0ed0360cc1f643f0f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2020-12-22T19:52:51Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0ddf27ce089d711346c881f11a5f3c68d92677c27773653c8caacc0aff896731"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2012.12324",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}