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pith:JGF5TFDM

pith:2017:JGF5TFDMMWNKNDXINFCNMMD2FC

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An Empirical Study on the Impact of Refactoring Activities on Evolving Client-Used APIs

Ali Ouni, Daniel M. German, Katsuro Inoue, Raula Gaikovina Kula

arxiv:1709.09474 v2 · 2017-09-27 · cs.SE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{JGF5TFDMMWNKNDXINFCNMMD2FC}

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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	2026-05-18T00:34:04.354496Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

498bd9946c659aa68ee86944d6307a28813bfe2cc71e26f2f0df1f468be723d7

Aliases

arxiv: 1709.09474 · arxiv_version: 1709.09474v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1709.09474 · pith_short_12: JGF5TFDMMWNK · pith_short_16: JGF5TFDMMWNKNDXI · pith_short_8: JGF5TFDM

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/JGF5TFDMMWNKNDXINFCNMMD2FC \
  | 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: 498bd9946c659aa68ee86944d6307a28813bfe2cc71e26f2f0df1f468be723d7

Canonical record JSON

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  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6657aedb611b516e034658a955d18cd0b286ecbedee3b002f7bdc3ce96a875b6",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2017-09-27T12:39:17Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d2ee2f8831039edefb8c849c37a1589516ba889cb25a71361b59a6c8ce04a5e9"
  },
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  "source": {
    "id": "1709.09474",
    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}