Pith Number

pith:TGRD2DFC

pith:2018:TGRD2DFCU56GVF4AR5WZNJP77T

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On the Relationship Between Modularity and Stability in Software Packages

Behzad Montazeri, Mohammad Raji

arxiv:1812.01061 v1 · 2018-12-03 · cs.SE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{TGRD2DFCU56GVF4AR5WZNJP77T}

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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	2026-05-17T23:59:13.414579Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

99a23d0ca2a77c6a97808f6d96a5fffcdea6df5fe041afe786c84a7a439976c9

Aliases

arxiv: 1812.01061 · arxiv_version: 1812.01061v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1812.01061 · pith_short_12: TGRD2DFCU56G · pith_short_16: TGRD2DFCU56GVF4A · pith_short_8: TGRD2DFC

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/TGRD2DFCU56GVF4AR5WZNJP77T \
  | 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: 99a23d0ca2a77c6a97808f6d96a5fffcdea6df5fe041afe786c84a7a439976c9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "715e65e00af2e8d5439e78f075a96a363c501e34b95120afc62529074380bf12",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2018-12-03T20:09:23Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d60ab34bf37a30528773c47ab40ff8be559c51886968eb395028ca87efec3505"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1812.01061",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}