Pith Number

pith:D7UHHADN

pith:2018:D7UHHADNYP3IODWCAQ77JGWRY3

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Visualizing Design Erosion: How Big Balls of Mud are Made

Craig Anslow, David Baum, Jens Dietrich, Richard M\"uller

arxiv:1807.06136 v1 · 2018-07-16 · cs.SE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{D7UHHADNYP3IODWCAQ77JGWRY3}

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:10:33.915348Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

1fe873806dc3f6870ec2043ff49ad1c6c0f688004ba9a54d5eee0625d7a552f2

Aliases

arxiv: 1807.06136 · arxiv_version: 1807.06136v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1807.06136 · pith_short_12: D7UHHADNYP3I · pith_short_16: D7UHHADNYP3IODWC · pith_short_8: D7UHHADN

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/D7UHHADNYP3IODWCAQ77JGWRY3 \
  | 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: 1fe873806dc3f6870ec2043ff49ad1c6c0f688004ba9a54d5eee0625d7a552f2

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9122e8a65337d328ef84452203bcd26893d3e0eb061cc6eb878c9e617f1e3625",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2018-07-16T22:26:06Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7fa7e89e1e121e040e5c6e3b709fbc94e1c04adc5f6c18469c65977174f6f2e8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1807.06136",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}