Pith Number

pith:4F67UG3M

pith:2014:4F67UG3M3YPU276NO5YVOKGDFD

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

SLI, a New Metric to determine Success of a Software Project

Shashi Kumar N.R., Suma V, T.R. GopalaKrishnan nair

arxiv:1407.8377 v1 · 2014-07-31 · cs.SE

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4F67UG3M3YPU276NO5YVOKGDFD}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T02:46:05.258940Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e17dfa1b6cde1f4d7fcd77715728c328d427132b192f184a61f70bf06bd884bd

Aliases

arxiv: 1407.8377 · arxiv_version: 1407.8377v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1407.8377 · pith_short_12: 4F67UG3M3YPU · pith_short_16: 4F67UG3M3YPU276N · pith_short_8: 4F67UG3M

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/4F67UG3M3YPU276NO5YVOKGDFD \
  | 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: e17dfa1b6cde1f4d7fcd77715728c328d427132b192f184a61f70bf06bd884bd

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "18206e012a4060c61be8dfd95e0f360c4fe96ec5d913f7ee0f0525fff273554a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2014-07-31T12:29:26Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "252ae713f2dae48e74bf062ae4317c50bf8c674b43ef7e769ba73ac1cd2d2d7e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1407.8377",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}