Pith Number

pith:G2GHF7Z6

pith:2017:G2GHF7Z6UTVZCGPIGJRU25MOCR

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Scaling up the software development process, a case study highlighting the complexities of large team software development

Mark Basham

arxiv:1703.00958 v1 · 2017-03-02 · cs.SE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{G2GHF7Z6UTVZCGPIGJRU25MOCR}

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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	2026-05-18T00:49:37.422399Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

368c72ff3ea4eb9119e832634d758e14771b83eb22a4f68cc57d6a06238e9ba3

Aliases

arxiv: 1703.00958 · arxiv_version: 1703.00958v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1703.00958 · pith_short_12: G2GHF7Z6UTVZ · pith_short_16: G2GHF7Z6UTVZCGPI · pith_short_8: G2GHF7Z6

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/G2GHF7Z6UTVZCGPIGJRU25MOCR \
  | 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: 368c72ff3ea4eb9119e832634d758e14771b83eb22a4f68cc57d6a06238e9ba3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "06ef5524850099a8602c473d04b620a190fefa5cbe898c4d01efc12e520cb2ae",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2017-03-02T21:51:38Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c7b5945ea70f8f73773a535cdf1af7a3287e017b6874b99812273852fc9a2e8f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1703.00958",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}