Pith Number

pith:X2DU7S6O

pith:2018:X2DU7S6OA7NSFFLIIWH6Q5FGEH

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

What's in a GitHub Star? Understanding Repository Starring Practices in a Social Coding Platform

Hudson Borges, Marco Tulio Valente

arxiv:1811.07643 v1 · 2018-11-19 · cs.SE

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{X2DU7S6OA7NSFFLIIWH6Q5FGEH}

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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	2026-05-17T23:50:58.894783Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

be874fcbce07db229568458fe874a621fc67ccc00a8df0b594b214f2941f5e93

Aliases

arxiv: 1811.07643 · arxiv_version: 1811.07643v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1811.07643 · pith_short_12: X2DU7S6OA7NS · pith_short_16: X2DU7S6OA7NSFFLI · pith_short_8: X2DU7S6O

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/X2DU7S6OA7NSFFLIIWH6Q5FGEH \
  | 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: be874fcbce07db229568458fe874a621fc67ccc00a8df0b594b214f2941f5e93

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4eabcb76813ad36644518f06d6020bf106507b52949e3c8916ced0e86ad0ac0d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2018-11-19T12:29:14Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7c0b40f6a77a480ccfc2ebf9a98255ce4c352d7099df891dd0f9d1fefa0a6ba7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1811.07643",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}