Pith Number

pith:RMEW4VHD

pith:2018:RMEW4VHD7TXLKVQTUKFOXEG4FV

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Investigating student understanding of bipolar junction transistor circuits

Kevin L. Van De Bogart, MacKenzie R. Stetzer

arxiv:1806.00404 v1 · 2018-06-01 · physics.ed-ph

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\pithnumber{RMEW4VHD7TXLKVQTUKFOXEG4FV}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:14:23.760310Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8b096e54e3fceeb55613a28aeb90dc2d7b2cf8492d648ac41900a3a8eb9aa03c

Aliases

arxiv: 1806.00404 · arxiv_version: 1806.00404v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1806.00404 · pith_short_12: RMEW4VHD7TXL · pith_short_16: RMEW4VHD7TXLKVQT · pith_short_8: RMEW4VHD

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/RMEW4VHD7TXLKVQTUKFOXEG4FV \
  | 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: 8b096e54e3fceeb55613a28aeb90dc2d7b2cf8492d648ac41900a3a8eb9aa03c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "be72bdac72daecb084a16528c4652f56aaf58c9d194df493f4bbdb676a2cc812",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.ed-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2018-06-01T15:50:16Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0a39e86eeec06c6325caec765674eeb6210449585e84a9455a69d27d32b1182b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1806.00404",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}