Pith Number

pith:X7Z6EUVE

pith:2026:X7Z6EUVEZY4MNSMTFRJTJJTTGE

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Large-Scale Analysis of Discussions by CS Educators Across the Stack Exchange Network

Farhad Hossain, Natasha Grech, Omar Alam

arxiv:2608.04352 v1 · 2026-08-05 · cs.CY

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{X7Z6EUVEZY4MNSMTFRJTJJTTGE}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ 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	2026-08-06T01:33:31.952719Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bff3e252a4ce38c6c9932c5334a67331077499c706ff0a121d55587b65119beb

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.04352 · arxiv_version: 2608.04352v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.04352 · pith_short_12: X7Z6EUVEZY4M · pith_short_16: X7Z6EUVEZY4MNSMT · pith_short_8: X7Z6EUVE

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/X7Z6EUVEZY4MNSMTFRJTJJTTGE \
  | 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: bff3e252a4ce38c6c9932c5334a67331077499c706ff0a121d55587b65119beb

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8191653cb9b83022a7ceea35c2b9978d3c16020a770e690ddcee40550dc3e0f4",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CY",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-05T01:53:40Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "59cc4c9731c56dc4f087331b15aab5a4e5b071dcaad48e48a4d104a20ecf8416"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.04352",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}