Pith Number

pith:EEQ6BR2E

pith:2023:EEQ6BR2EAXJBCKFDZ5O4UEELGL

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Patrick O'Beirne

arxiv:2309.00120 v1 · 2023-08-31 · cs.SE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{EEQ6BR2EAXJBCKFDZ5O4UEELGL}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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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1 paper in Pith

Large Language Models for Spreadsheets: Benchmarking Progress and Evaluating Performance with FLARE

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T06:46:52.462242Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2121e0c74405d21128a3cf5dca108b32e833ec070d498565e48a878c1d56cb2e

Aliases

arxiv: 2309.00120 · arxiv_version: 2309.00120v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2309.00120 · pith_short_12: EEQ6BR2EAXJB · pith_short_16: EEQ6BR2EAXJBCKFD · pith_short_8: EEQ6BR2E

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/EEQ6BR2EAXJBCKFDZ5O4UEELGL \
  | 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: 2121e0c74405d21128a3cf5dca108b32e833ec070d498565e48a878c1d56cb2e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "24c658c4d495038ba29b46a1eb8e6474c00762a278bf2c98c7b86e2a3cb36d07",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2023-08-31T20:21:02Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ffe125d65fde4ebde6db1baf7113efb09455232c7095919ddbb3a4e5f7753147"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2309.00120",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}