Pith Number

pith:SSQRZLTT

pith:2024:SSQRZLTT2M2FQ3AXL4GNTFSL5W

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The Good, the Bad, and the Monstrous: Predicting Highly Change-Prone Source Code Methods at Their Inception

Shaiful Chowdhury

arxiv:2408.05704 v2 · 2024-08-11 · cs.SE

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{SSQRZLTT2M2FQ3AXL4GNTFSL5W}

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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	2026-07-05T09:55:11.521438Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

94a11cae73d334586c175f0cd9964bed9b89b0010f1e2f728a6d9c8b7678e73b

Aliases

arxiv: 2408.05704 · arxiv_version: 2408.05704v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2408.05704 · pith_short_12: SSQRZLTT2M2F · pith_short_16: SSQRZLTT2M2FQ3AX · pith_short_8: SSQRZLTT

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/SSQRZLTT2M2FQ3AXL4GNTFSL5W \
  | 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: 94a11cae73d334586c175f0cd9964bed9b89b0010f1e2f728a6d9c8b7678e73b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2b125f6c6d4b33454ec67a0ffebe22f328f5f4d190158ee748e2f66169552e6b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2024-08-11T06:20:48Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6bb993ee7a4675edd35121fa8d9e5dc0c30e14bf15f636fd48b5e899056e7e65"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2408.05704",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}