Pith Number

pith:BUCYX3NF

pith:2010:BUCYX3NF6PI3BBLVMHEKKN6XWK

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Comment: How Should Indirect Evidence Be Used?

Robert E. Kass

arxiv:1012.1479 v1 · 2010-12-07 · stat.ME

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BUCYX3NF6PI3BBLVMHEKKN6XWK}

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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	2026-05-18T04:34:01.033970Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0d058beda5f3d1b0857561c8a537d7b296f8aa0bf15b5ef5ac53de1aab7e8176

Aliases

arxiv: 1012.1479 · arxiv_version: 1012.1479v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1012.1479 · pith_short_12: BUCYX3NF6PI3 · pith_short_16: BUCYX3NF6PI3BBLV · pith_short_8: BUCYX3NF

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/BUCYX3NF6PI3BBLVMHEKKN6XWK \
  | 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: 0d058beda5f3d1b0857561c8a537d7b296f8aa0bf15b5ef5ac53de1aab7e8176

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c3c27e5c7fe44384d6334146db990c84ce9bd35a206c29a64a05eea5d49b8089",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ME",
    "submitted_at": "2010-12-07T11:51:03Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1ffaf23e74e9f352fb6e09241c8c96b6b12a4f884f7b709bc6e02adb5a5fdeec"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1012.1479",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}