Pith Number

pith:G3KI2BDO

pith:2017:G3KI2BDO3U2ZIZ3EZJPBW4AVTK

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Measuring Affectiveness and Effectiveness in Software Systems

Giuseppe Destefanis, Marco Ortu, Michele Marchesi, Roberto Tonelli, Steve Counsell

arxiv:1703.01642 v1 · 2017-03-05 · cs.SE

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\pithnumber{G3KI2BDO3U2ZIZ3EZJPBW4AVTK}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:49:30.018547Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

36d48d046edd35946764ca5e1b70159aafb81408e17fdc1338af316db1e49c52

Aliases

arxiv: 1703.01642 · arxiv_version: 1703.01642v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1703.01642 · pith_short_12: G3KI2BDO3U2Z · pith_short_16: G3KI2BDO3U2ZIZ3E · pith_short_8: G3KI2BDO

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/G3KI2BDO3U2ZIZ3EZJPBW4AVTK \
  | 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: 36d48d046edd35946764ca5e1b70159aafb81408e17fdc1338af316db1e49c52

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "582c91a7972a6d69ed88e60176598989a281231f9ff6de3de9e94030a000ad70",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2017-03-05T18:49:42Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "189864d797643901d7f4010bf1a149c5199381e94927b9ad43e72106bc501360"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1703.01642",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}