Pith Number

pith:5YUWIBGD

pith:2016:5YUWIBGD4CTV2BWCLOMR7N5HGY

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Computing exponentially faster: Implementing a nondeterministic universal Turing machine using DNA

Andrew Currin, Douglas B. Kell, Katherine Roper, Konstantin Korovin, Maria Ababi, Philip J. Day, Ross D. King

arxiv:1607.08078 v1 · 2016-07-27 · cs.CC · cs.ET · q-bio.BM

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5YUWIBGD4CTV2BWCLOMR7N5HGY}

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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	2026-05-18T01:10:14.038165Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ee296404c3e0a75d06c25b991fb7a7362b16c1a1dda162be298efa3a96bff871

Aliases

arxiv: 1607.08078 · arxiv_version: 1607.08078v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1607.08078 · pith_short_12: 5YUWIBGD4CTV · pith_short_16: 5YUWIBGD4CTV2BWC · pith_short_8: 5YUWIBGD

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/5YUWIBGD4CTV2BWCLOMR7N5HGY \
  | 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: ee296404c3e0a75d06c25b991fb7a7362b16c1a1dda162be298efa3a96bff871

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "28ea3f7684e0eb33ca498d754319d6a4e0bfc79355022af74a6d733124666eed",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.ET",
      "q-bio.BM"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CC",
    "submitted_at": "2016-07-27T13:17:02Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d8ae0a02606e1510a3c1f38f0a2e78352acb631f200600381e058f72ca90ca8c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1607.08078",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}