Pith Number

pith:PCQDJBNC

pith:2017:PCQDJBNCJ7CXRX4JCHRCCZUOXL

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A Software Reuse Approach and Its Effect On Software Quality, An Empirical Study for The Software Industry

Ahmed Mateen, Ahsan Raza Sattar, Samina Kausar

arxiv:1702.00125 v1 · 2017-02-01 · cs.SE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{PCQDJBNCJ7CXRX4JCHRCCZUOXL}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-18T00:51:35.168662Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

78a03485a24fc578df8911e221668ebad9e33eda51bd2ac467dbdebed4dcdb7c

Aliases

arxiv: 1702.00125 · arxiv_version: 1702.00125v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1702.00125 · pith_short_12: PCQDJBNCJ7CX · pith_short_16: PCQDJBNCJ7CXRX4J · pith_short_8: PCQDJBNC

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/PCQDJBNCJ7CXRX4JCHRCCZUOXL \
  | 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: 78a03485a24fc578df8911e221668ebad9e33eda51bd2ac467dbdebed4dcdb7c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c5fc3a453998203c5d2ca0ba8426c91440c164d593db54db6ff1dc1eabaca563",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2017-02-01T04:33:51Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "70023a8796a1a9feda102633b73b79c04cdd910b1d71773cdae864fee736d863"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1702.00125",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}