Pith Number

pith:R6DR5ENY

pith:2015:R6DR5ENY5BCTNUH7OJEAQDNQP3

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Using Students as Experimental Subjects in Software Engineering Research -- A Review and Discussion of the Evidence

Dror G. Feitelson

arxiv:1512.08409 v1 · 2015-12-28 · cs.SE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{R6DR5ENY5BCTNUH7OJEAQDNQP3}

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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	2026-05-18T01:23:42.374917Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8f871e91b8e84536d0ff7248080db07eeda3300470f47c26e80907557be0287e

Aliases

arxiv: 1512.08409 · arxiv_version: 1512.08409v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1512.08409 · pith_short_12: R6DR5ENY5BCT · pith_short_16: R6DR5ENY5BCTNUH7 · pith_short_8: R6DR5ENY

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/R6DR5ENY5BCTNUH7OJEAQDNQP3 \
  | 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: 8f871e91b8e84536d0ff7248080db07eeda3300470f47c26e80907557be0287e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7b2aee00a538ae1164e8c00decdd1b223f3fb664f02a8a7ff2fc3b943c63794f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2015-12-28T13:30:06Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6bc14b2de850bc47d72d1337f5732d53c35123e423a17a248376bc6ef17eb0f6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1512.08409",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}