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pith:SH4VL7WU

pith:2025:SH4VL7WUCSAMUJY5AB3RMEVNY2

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The Hidden Cost of Readability: How Code Formatting Silently Consumes Your LLM Budget

Cenyuan Zhang, Dangfeng Pan, David Lo, Xiaoning Du, Zhensu Sun

arxiv:2508.13666 v1 · 2025-08-19 · cs.SE · cs.AI

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First computed	2026-07-05T11:56:23.739575Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
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Canonical hash

91f955fed41480ca271d00771612adc69a180914e2364e13e83b402de9fa7743

Aliases

arxiv: 2508.13666 · arxiv_version: 2508.13666v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2508.13666 · pith_short_12: SH4VL7WUCSAM · pith_short_16: SH4VL7WUCSAMUJY5 · pith_short_8: SH4VL7WU

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/SH4VL7WUCSAMUJY5AB3RMEVNY2 \
  | 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: 91f955fed41480ca271d00771612adc69a180914e2364e13e83b402de9fa7743

Canonical record JSON

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    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2025-08-19T09:13:48Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f9c95a44ba13d1206319e005884375c1b90580a71a60ed1f67870ce6464d2dfc"
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