Pith Number

pith:N4BT5N2O

pith:2012:N4BT5N2OKVK7DLHUIWBSHJ3ERM

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A Metric for the Activeness of a Distributed Object Oriented Component Library

Deepak Kumar Sharma, Sachin Lakra, Shree Harsh Atrey, T.V. Prasad

arxiv:1209.4453 v1 · 2012-09-20 · cs.SE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{N4BT5N2OKVK7DLHUIWBSHJ3ERM}

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T03:45:11.672968Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6f033eb74e5555f1acf4458323a7648b385b67b21f56933bcdb9a5f35a829d35

Aliases

arxiv: 1209.4453 · arxiv_version: 1209.4453v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1209.4453 · pith_short_12: N4BT5N2OKVK7 · pith_short_16: N4BT5N2OKVK7DLHU · pith_short_8: N4BT5N2O

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/N4BT5N2OKVK7DLHUIWBSHJ3ERM \
  | 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: 6f033eb74e5555f1acf4458323a7648b385b67b21f56933bcdb9a5f35a829d35

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "65bd8fe74438ea69db77b3fc506169e932925ea29faa400429d1a9d6c7634fd1",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2012-09-20T08:27:46Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e6f934c12bb53074e299776a16ad6d31a935047750468bfcb8ad61e383438746"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1209.4453",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}