Pith Number

pith:SXXX7VUW

pith:2018:SXXX7VUWLYL43Q5Z7RWGIE2QF2

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Evaluating How Developers Use General-Purpose Web-Search for Code Retrieval

Baishakhi Ray, Christopher Parnin, Federico Andres Lois, Jed Barson, Joshua Kayan, Kathryn T. Stolee, Md Masudur Rahman, Sebastian Fernandez Quezada, Sydney Paul

arxiv:1803.08612 v1 · 2018-03-22 · cs.SE · cs.IR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{SXXX7VUWLYL43Q5Z7RWGIE2QF2}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:20:19.091764Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

95ef7fd6965e17cdc3b9fc6c6413502e806496c5c43defb571ae4ebe599897bf

Aliases

arxiv: 1803.08612 · arxiv_version: 1803.08612v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1803.08612 · pith_short_12: SXXX7VUWLYL4 · pith_short_16: SXXX7VUWLYL43Q5Z · pith_short_8: SXXX7VUW

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/SXXX7VUWLYL43Q5Z7RWGIE2QF2 \
  | 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: 95ef7fd6965e17cdc3b9fc6c6413502e806496c5c43defb571ae4ebe599897bf

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c96e9b9627f8682aa873f7f591b3c56150b880662d15c620da7c2712d401fc91",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.IR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2018-03-22T23:29:25Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9c60c9baae011b266a38851f3dbb92f6a34a0f9a4f905478cae7abe979134a67"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1803.08612",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}