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pith:ZQMB3NCK

pith:2018:ZQMB3NCKDPHKCMUTXABS4Q6MZF

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The Reification of an Incorrect and Inappropriate Spreadsheet Model

Grenville J. Croll

arxiv:1801.10249 v1 · 2018-01-30 · cs.HC

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Understanding and Evaluating Trust in Generative AI and Large Language Models for Spreadsheets

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:24:41.356138Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

cc181db44a1bcea13293b8032e43ccc95b31ac194c858183d0083f97bba3fbb4

Aliases

arxiv: 1801.10249 · arxiv_version: 1801.10249v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1801.10249 · pith_short_12: ZQMB3NCKDPHK · pith_short_16: ZQMB3NCKDPHKCMUT · pith_short_8: ZQMB3NCK

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/ZQMB3NCKDPHKCMUTXABS4Q6MZF \
  | 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: cc181db44a1bcea13293b8032e43ccc95b31ac194c858183d0083f97bba3fbb4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "abe5ac806df6c830e62a6887868cbd11f3f3717429078d2b657611bbdb40179d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.HC",
    "submitted_at": "2018-01-30T22:54:06Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "97c9b27533460890ed70740cb1b426d8d2c29bac8581049f4fb29ef2460f0560"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1801.10249",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}