Pith Number

pith:CZ53ARDX

pith:2026:CZ53ARDXDONN6Z5RHJKFUTMFK3

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Beyond the Final Prompt: Measuring the Effect of Within-Conversation Context on AI Answers

Benjamin Tannenbaum

arxiv:2608.02556 v1 · 2026-08-03 · cs.IR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{CZ53ARDXDONN6Z5RHJKFUTMFK3}

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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	2026-08-04T02:44:06.489924Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

167bb044771b9adf67b13a545a4d8556f011d7a3fffd7d5dd80b39462f7b581d

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.02556 · arxiv_version: 2608.02556v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.02556 · pith_short_12: CZ53ARDXDONN · pith_short_16: CZ53ARDXDONN6Z5R · pith_short_8: CZ53ARDX

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/CZ53ARDXDONN6Z5RHJKFUTMFK3 \
  | 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: 167bb044771b9adf67b13a545a4d8556f011d7a3fffd7d5dd80b39462f7b581d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "fa61ced1f492b22d1ebdb39e5f86ddd5587041adbde0314f915244f59626f86c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IR",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-03T17:40:46Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "350ce778288a6119de9cf4ef98e71e38942780b93e99293b9f643a06a234007f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.02556",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}