Pith Number

pith:ZR7M5B5M

pith:2014:ZR7M5B5MXVH6CHIWJ425QABIJY

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Developer Belief vs. Reality: The Case of the Commit Size Distribution

Carsten Kolassa, Dirk Riehle, Michel A. Salim

arxiv:1408.4644 v1 · 2014-08-20 · cs.SE

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZR7M5B5MXVH6CHIWJ425QABIJY}

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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

✓ 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	2026-05-18T02:44:48.483056Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

cc7ece87acbd4fe11d164f35d800284e2e73b58d41f34330021ec0c0e4bba23c

Aliases

arxiv: 1408.4644 · arxiv_version: 1408.4644v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1408.4644 · pith_short_12: ZR7M5B5MXVH6 · pith_short_16: ZR7M5B5MXVH6CHIW · pith_short_8: ZR7M5B5M

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/ZR7M5B5MXVH6CHIWJ425QABIJY \
  | 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: cc7ece87acbd4fe11d164f35d800284e2e73b58d41f34330021ec0c0e4bba23c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e40aba632567d737fec49b1721c1ef4e9b2fcd6e763343c7fc590ab45a1a44aa",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2014-08-20T13:24:26Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e09a73726106d4eb3b045551e8d635801e710dc3ef0e6b03fdc0a5ffa158b6ce"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1408.4644",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}