Pith Number

pith:24SCXZXX

pith:2026:24SCXZXXS2YNI7VYTT53MLGZNK

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Chatbots Output Meaningful (but Problematic) Language

Matthew Stone, Una Stojni\'c

arxiv:2606.02973 v1 · 2026-06-02 · cs.CL

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{24SCXZXXS2YNI7VYTT53MLGZNK}

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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	2026-06-03T01:05:28.180306Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d7242be6f796b0d47eb89cfbb62cd96aaad50075239fb66414483c7f29802c48

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.02973 · arxiv_version: 2606.02973v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.02973 · pith_short_12: 24SCXZXXS2YN · pith_short_16: 24SCXZXXS2YNI7VY · pith_short_8: 24SCXZXX

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/24SCXZXXS2YNI7VYTT53MLGZNK \
  | 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: d7242be6f796b0d47eb89cfbb62cd96aaad50075239fb66414483c7f29802c48

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0b1f1a68e17d5596bc52e7b722835e99c06a9f93e12cce4eeb0ed7db0abca01e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-02T00:24:42Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "93c579103c6599979cc05608e3e2703930acebd90e3516db43e46a3f37a96da2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.02973",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}