Pith Number

pith:P4LEYH5W

pith:2025:P4LEYH5WD2D5MDFHJ6KJ4JQB7D

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How Does Users' App Knowledge Influence the Preferred Level of Detail and Format of Software Explanations?

Hannah Deters, Jakob Droste, Jannik Fischbach, Jil Kl\"under, Kurt Schneider, Marc Herrmann, Martin Obaidi

arxiv:2502.06549 v1 · 2025-02-10 · cs.SE

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{P4LEYH5WD2D5MDFHJ6KJ4JQB7D}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-07-05T11:22:36.456481Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7f164c1fb61e87d60ca74f949e2601f8c1a078fa0a3c128294ed56cb1d0fecc5

Aliases

arxiv: 2502.06549 · arxiv_version: 2502.06549v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2502.06549 · pith_short_12: P4LEYH5WD2D5 · pith_short_16: P4LEYH5WD2D5MDFH · pith_short_8: P4LEYH5W

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/P4LEYH5WD2D5MDFHJ6KJ4JQB7D \
  | 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: 7f164c1fb61e87d60ca74f949e2601f8c1a078fa0a3c128294ed56cb1d0fecc5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9200704a0f064e5a227b5f465b1ef48c48f42cc884c8a2736ec2fad0ccc29410",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2025-02-10T15:18:04Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "aaf70c5e3dc903b3ee252d4bc78e4c90ca41788dd6b512d391a2831925d5555e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2502.06549",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}