Pith Number

pith:DASZ44I7

pith:2025:DASZ44I7FOPOR5GTCF3RB2IREJ

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arxiv:2504.12517 v2 · 2025-04-16 · cs.SE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{DASZ44I7FOPOR5GTCF3RB2IREJ}

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2 Internet Archive

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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.

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1 paper in Pith

Will It Break in Production? Metric-Driven Prediction of Residual Defects in Python Systems

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T10:52:59.602577Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

18259e711f2b9ee8f4d3117710e91122608019ff5a54cd4627943e167b462e4c

Aliases

arxiv: 2504.12517 · arxiv_version: 2504.12517v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2504.12517 · pith_short_12: DASZ44I7FOPO · pith_short_16: DASZ44I7FOPOR5GT · pith_short_8: DASZ44I7

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/DASZ44I7FOPOR5GTCF3RB2IREJ \
  | 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: 18259e711f2b9ee8f4d3117710e91122608019ff5a54cd4627943e167b462e4c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6d23dde8cfdbd48c0c2d1772a91e64cbf6433327fa7ff95c0b25ac5e8001a7de",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2025-04-16T22:30:54Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "01fac43004b2972e159a55f1ac6e290cfa463ee524798795e350e669e96eb806"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2504.12517",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}