Pith Number

pith:BWWU72ZZ

pith:2017:BWWU72ZZRNNHEBNXPWDKAVFBTP

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Deterministic Gathering with Crash Faults

Andrzej Pelc

arxiv:1704.08880 v1 · 2017-04-28 · cs.DC

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BWWU72ZZRNNHEBNXPWDKAVFBTP}

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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	2026-05-18T00:45:25.079609Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0dad4feb398b5a7205b77d86a054a19be0bf2faafd487bcb372e02545cd1e749

Aliases

arxiv: 1704.08880 · arxiv_version: 1704.08880v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1704.08880 · pith_short_12: BWWU72ZZRNNH · pith_short_16: BWWU72ZZRNNHEBNX · pith_short_8: BWWU72ZZ

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/BWWU72ZZRNNHEBNXPWDKAVFBTP \
  | 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: 0dad4feb398b5a7205b77d86a054a19be0bf2faafd487bcb372e02545cd1e749

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6b05fe03b904f22de21d420e9acc8def471b707e5dc5e493ab209850a86e1180",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2017-04-28T11:29:23Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2447d4c9956ee954a6eb8b7d1bdce7cca5851521a618d4d9008b529f820ef540"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1704.08880",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}