Pith Number

pith:MFSIUY5M

pith:2018:MFSIUY5MYLAEHH3GPBDYUNKM32

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Cutting Away the Confusion From Crowdtesting

Junjie Wang, Mingyang Li, Qing Wang, Song Wang, Tim Menzies

arxiv:1805.02763 v2 · 2018-05-07 · cs.SE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MFSIUY5MYLAEHH3GPBDYUNKM32}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-17T23:48:17.393759Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

61648a63acc2c0439f6678478a354cdebfcfed624dd67b2c9fdbd098055242ae

Aliases

arxiv: 1805.02763 · arxiv_version: 1805.02763v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1805.02763 · pith_short_12: MFSIUY5MYLAE · pith_short_16: MFSIUY5MYLAEHH3G · pith_short_8: MFSIUY5M

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/MFSIUY5MYLAEHH3GPBDYUNKM32 \
  | 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: 61648a63acc2c0439f6678478a354cdebfcfed624dd67b2c9fdbd098055242ae

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7093f552b207c29934906b70844f493d4688469d567532f5b6d79116798c699b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2018-05-07T21:49:46Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "af0040afe03edcc564128446147060db6d9cc84fcf89f54fec210606fd6b59ba"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1805.02763",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}