Pith Number

pith:3VCN4XO4

pith:2015:3VCN4XO4BMTEKYXGAVHQP26PM4

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Sustainability and Reproducibility via Containerized Computing

David Bruhwiler, Paul Moeller, Robert Nagler, Stephen Webb

arxiv:1509.08789 v1 · 2015-09-28 · 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{3VCN4XO4BMTEKYXGAVHQP26PM4}

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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	2026-05-18T01:31:47.102993Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

dd44de5ddc0b264562e6054f07ebcf670b53c443af6adc5b9c6412e84b101299

Aliases

arxiv: 1509.08789 · arxiv_version: 1509.08789v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1509.08789 · pith_short_12: 3VCN4XO4BMTE · pith_short_16: 3VCN4XO4BMTEKYXG · pith_short_8: 3VCN4XO4

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/3VCN4XO4BMTEKYXGAVHQP26PM4 \
  | 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: dd44de5ddc0b264562e6054f07ebcf670b53c443af6adc5b9c6412e84b101299

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "187b04c3237701e1f3a7992c2f2c768c1f82e0290f80c3fdcd260afcc0f5230a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2015-09-28T17:49:16Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a5e4d6d066d3586d1e086737e9df348bf62e15e770ce82a00ada2611a065c59c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1509.08789",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}