Pith Number

pith:NFXPQEUB

pith:2026:NFXPQEUBZT3P7YYNTJYN4M22P5

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Pixels for Programs? A Cross-Provider Case Study of Input-Token Accounting for Source Code as Text and Images

Ronak Bhalgami

arxiv:2607.21672 v1 · 2026-07-23 · cs.SE · cs.AI · cs.CV

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NFXPQEUBZT3P7YYNTJYN4M22P5}

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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	2026-07-27T00:20:14.360853Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

696ef81281ccf6ffe30d9a70de335a7f4f310132eda41a0e07b1f7a563038512

Aliases

arxiv: 2607.21672 · arxiv_version: 2607.21672v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2607.21672 · pith_short_12: NFXPQEUBZT3P · pith_short_16: NFXPQEUBZT3P7YYN · pith_short_8: NFXPQEUB

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/NFXPQEUBZT3P7YYNTJYN4M22P5 \
  | 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: 696ef81281ccf6ffe30d9a70de335a7f4f310132eda41a0e07b1f7a563038512

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4f58dc93f0ea1182ebe12b76bf1328dfc17cfdc4cc78b369fc60012135ccaf22",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "cs.CV"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2026-07-23T09:19:16Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5721dd6fea7b602c90341bd44319bbc6c690199a1118732c7dd7dbcea221907c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2607.21672",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}