Pith Number

pith:MF277RFV

pith:2013:MF277RFVDV33BCS6RCJPT25BAG

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Quality Control and Due Diligence in Project Management: Getting Decisions Right by Taking the Outside View

Bent Flyvbjerg

arxiv:1302.2544 v1 · 2013-02-11 · q-fin.GN

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MF277RFVDV33BCS6RCJPT25BAG}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T03:30:25.216310Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6175ffc4b51d77b08a5e8892f9eba101883236f1527d52f697ddc648b60dfaa8

Aliases

arxiv: 1302.2544 · arxiv_version: 1302.2544v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1302.2544 · pith_short_12: MF277RFVDV33 · pith_short_16: MF277RFVDV33BCS6 · pith_short_8: MF277RFV

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/MF277RFVDV33BCS6RCJPT25BAG \
  | 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: 6175ffc4b51d77b08a5e8892f9eba101883236f1527d52f697ddc648b60dfaa8

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5c87f9f328f6ad55f4cbafdfe9d14b734e28fa56a5d96629b03249100f36b229",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-fin.GN",
    "submitted_at": "2013-02-11T17:26:03Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "83603acc1afb041b277d3c1468aa20f6151ad7995f21f8790aa53eaddd0fff22"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1302.2544",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}