Pith Number

pith:SZLYZS45

pith:2017:SZLYZS453USMKM3PVWLZFWIFHD

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To Agile, or not to Agile: A Comparison of Software Development Methodologies

Justin Sybrandt, Ruslan Shaydulin

arxiv:1704.07469 v1 · 2017-04-24 · cs.SE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{SZLYZS453USMKM3PVWLZFWIFHD}

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✓ 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	2026-05-18T00:45:37.979543Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

96578ccb9ddd24c5336fad9792d90538f9a9777318adae9b2f5c4c0eefc1bcf5

Aliases

arxiv: 1704.07469 · arxiv_version: 1704.07469v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1704.07469 · pith_short_12: SZLYZS453USM · pith_short_16: SZLYZS453USMKM3P · pith_short_8: SZLYZS45

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/SZLYZS453USMKM3PVWLZFWIFHD \
  | 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: 96578ccb9ddd24c5336fad9792d90538f9a9777318adae9b2f5c4c0eefc1bcf5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b0d045f1c594fb46f5f42669f60be790dc2cb2a82d67c38e23cf50cfac94e104",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2017-04-24T21:44:10Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2b408256054f1e5050b0f9d33727878d5148bdadece904e45b6f8585c19bf0ce"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1704.07469",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}