Pith Number

pith:TH3P7M5O

pith:2025:TH3P7M5O22O6IT6HYUM6C52FUP

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Do Automatic Comment Generation Techniques Fall Short? Exploring the Influence of Method Dependencies on Code Understanding

Banani Roy, Md Mustakim Billah, Md Shamimur Rahman

arxiv:2504.19459 v1 · 2025-04-28 · cs.SE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{TH3P7M5O22O6IT6HYUM6C52FUP}

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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	2026-07-05T10:54:57.908161Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

99f6ffb3aed69de44fc7c519e17745a3c2ee76f505bbf888656e6976cfcaeded

Aliases

arxiv: 2504.19459 · arxiv_version: 2504.19459v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2504.19459 · pith_short_12: TH3P7M5O22O6 · pith_short_16: TH3P7M5O22O6IT6H · pith_short_8: TH3P7M5O

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/TH3P7M5O22O6IT6HYUM6C52FUP \
  | 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: 99f6ffb3aed69de44fc7c519e17745a3c2ee76f505bbf888656e6976cfcaeded

Canonical record JSON

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  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "438d8fd2fe7eee6a42b083a7b5d1e6e9b59233ef94048ce0493a0203b54b1088",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2025-04-28T03:49:06Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2c4cc1995841af65c19d0cf312bcd53a656a58ae29f81d75fe626cda109d99ff"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2504.19459",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}