Pith Number

pith:BSMYK2A3

pith:2013:BSMYK2A35TWOGM6VW4A5H5TBBU

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Describing the complexity of systems: multi-variable "set complexity" and the information basis of systems biology

Alexander Skupin, David J. Galas, Nikita A. Sakhanenko, Tomasz Ignac

arxiv:1302.6932 v3 · 2013-02-27 · cs.IT · math.IT · q-bio.QM

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First computed	2026-05-18T03:15:34.315329Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0c9985681becece333d5b701d3f6610d1401ad04c5b764999e0bef35e1ea36fc

Aliases

arxiv: 1302.6932 · arxiv_version: 1302.6932v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1302.6932 · pith_short_12: BSMYK2A35TWO · pith_short_16: BSMYK2A35TWOGM6V · pith_short_8: BSMYK2A3

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/BSMYK2A35TWOGM6VW4A5H5TBBU \
  | 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: 0c9985681becece333d5b701d3f6610d1401ad04c5b764999e0bef35e1ea36fc

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3a46e4a05ef19de9e720c3820b376c62e20f33498a12d3525d04777c7941d83d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT",
      "q-bio.QM"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2013-02-27T17:30:49Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0750fae562425f92fe4d5a73d6c6ecad2c36fc48a36fdf3c825cef2380745bf8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1302.6932",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}