Pith Number

pith:IKZFWU32

pith:2017:IKZFWU32QWM2X5AS5NID6VVCZI

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An Empirical Comparison of Dependency Network Evolution in Seven Software Packaging Ecosystems

Alexandre Decan, Philippe Grosjean, Tom Mens

arxiv:1710.04936 v1 · 2017-10-13 · cs.SE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{IKZFWU32QWM2X5AS5NID6VVCZI}

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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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First computed	2026-05-18T00:32:56.269971Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

42b25b537a8599abf412eb503f56a2ca2cd7a3a21eb9e760968ba44090f81da7

Aliases

arxiv: 1710.04936 · arxiv_version: 1710.04936v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1710.04936 · pith_short_12: IKZFWU32QWM2 · pith_short_16: IKZFWU32QWM2X5AS · pith_short_8: IKZFWU32

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/IKZFWU32QWM2X5AS5NID6VVCZI \
  | 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: 42b25b537a8599abf412eb503f56a2ca2cd7a3a21eb9e760968ba44090f81da7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5b97a7692c445bf3d3ab76ab50ad5adc2e850401fc76a5d78cec48d8c2737874",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2017-10-13T14:23:36Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "23f2b108f1950deb6339f6d33cc549867ebb50741d543ad4e4bc8a4dc56a62d5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1710.04936",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}