Pith Number

pith:3BLETTNS

pith:2017:3BLETTNSDNQZY3YXQQWY3AXPR6

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Declarativeness: the work done by something else

Attila Egri-Nagy

arxiv:1711.09197 v1 · 2017-11-25 · cs.PL

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3BLETTNSDNQZY3YXQQWY3AXPR6}

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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	2026-05-18T00:29:40.254302Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d85649cdb21b619c6f17842d8d82ef8f8c3117fdb60cbcb135b7eb1684498a0d

Aliases

arxiv: 1711.09197 · arxiv_version: 1711.09197v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1711.09197 · pith_short_12: 3BLETTNSDNQZ · pith_short_16: 3BLETTNSDNQZY3YX · pith_short_8: 3BLETTNS

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/3BLETTNSDNQZY3YXQQWY3AXPR6 \
  | 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: d85649cdb21b619c6f17842d8d82ef8f8c3117fdb60cbcb135b7eb1684498a0d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "139f047767357c6942b053c4709c27ad0e1ead63bbe640da8d4ac9f644693c97",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.PL",
    "submitted_at": "2017-11-25T06:20:10Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ddebf951cadb8efc4b5f10e9b1785b4974682902cc45b81715d59189625136a2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1711.09197",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}