Pith Number

pith:44L3NI7O

pith:2016:44L3NI7O5MJPE2JPDN6PKYGFAD

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Logic as a distributive law

Lucius Gregory Meredith, Mike Stay

arxiv:1610.02247 v3 · 2016-10-07 · cs.LO

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{44L3NI7O5MJPE2JPDN6PKYGFAD}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-18T01:02:12.144373Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e717b6a3eeeb12f2692f1b7cf560c500e505ccb395ecc4dd3804afeed9c20349

Aliases

arxiv: 1610.02247 · arxiv_version: 1610.02247v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1610.02247 · pith_short_12: 44L3NI7O5MJP · pith_short_16: 44L3NI7O5MJPE2JP · pith_short_8: 44L3NI7O

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/44L3NI7O5MJPE2JPDN6PKYGFAD \
  | 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: e717b6a3eeeb12f2692f1b7cf560c500e505ccb395ecc4dd3804afeed9c20349

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ce874a4fc618119309866b134252b4325c474b07425b8b4a7601d22638c264ca",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LO",
    "submitted_at": "2016-10-07T12:26:03Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ec2654295e26ba006972f3c3285948726017769da33f1679df9dfc5f69c36bd4"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1610.02247",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}