Pith Number

pith:M6E5WKMY

pith:2019:M6E5WKMYWFMFTL7ENK3DSWVB42

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Temporal Discounting in Technical Debt: How do Software Practitioners Discount the Future?

Alexandros Chatzigeorgiou, Christoph Becker, Fabian Fagerholm, Rahul Mohanani

arxiv:1901.07024 v2 · 2019-01-21 · cs.SE

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\pithnumber{M6E5WKMYWFMFTL7ENK3DSWVB42}

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First computed	2026-05-17T23:49:39.521175Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6789db2998b15859afe46ab6395aa1e6a7a56cdfcc20f2b5626aa090cc047961

Aliases

arxiv: 1901.07024 · arxiv_version: 1901.07024v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1901.07024 · pith_short_12: M6E5WKMYWFMF · pith_short_16: M6E5WKMYWFMFTL7E · pith_short_8: M6E5WKMY

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/M6E5WKMYWFMFTL7ENK3DSWVB42 \
  | 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: 6789db2998b15859afe46ab6395aa1e6a7a56cdfcc20f2b5626aa090cc047961

Canonical record JSON

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    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b7cac5cf234a0e00cef425816235c0e2c035cea04b7d82d7e6b538d75fbe2ab7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2019-01-21T18:26:58Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a0993e5b16d32bf31295b0588232afe9f13f215de9737eec474a26df41e65180"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1901.07024",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}