Pith Number

pith:H6MSL7XU

pith:2018:H6MSL7XUCTXME2EJNP3MJE4F32

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Can You Explain That, Better? Comprehensible Text Analytics for SE Applications

Amritanshu Agrawal, Huy Tu, Tim Menzies

arxiv:1804.10657 v1 · 2018-04-27 · cs.SE

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{H6MSL7XUCTXME2EJNP3MJE4F32}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-18T00:17:15.948598Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3f9925fef414eec268896bf6c49385dea97a3b748788f0edf9fa582ec0387ba8

Aliases

arxiv: 1804.10657 · arxiv_version: 1804.10657v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1804.10657 · pith_short_12: H6MSL7XUCTXM · pith_short_16: H6MSL7XUCTXME2EJ · pith_short_8: H6MSL7XU

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/H6MSL7XUCTXME2EJNP3MJE4F32 \
  | 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: 3f9925fef414eec268896bf6c49385dea97a3b748788f0edf9fa582ec0387ba8

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4cc7c269a7207998907db4d49cfe8f109d319cd895a75e2c5a593a8745c6d1df",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2018-04-27T19:20:39Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "40e481ade5f1fcd76bf73d3d0d7f0052f86660a756a4eb76ce396cdd7ede2487"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1804.10657",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}