Pith Number

pith:ER4ETMPA

pith:2014:ER4ETMPAOKQRAWGQPYV6Z2FMMF

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The Precautionary Principle (with Application to the Genetic Modification of Organisms)

Joseph Norman, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Raphael Douady, Rupert Read, Yaneer Bar-Yam

arxiv:1410.5787 v1 · 2014-10-17 · q-fin.GN · physics.soc-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ER4ETMPAOKQRAWGQPYV6Z2FMMF}

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4 Citations 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	2026-05-18T02:39:39.127488Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

247849b1e072a11058d07e2bece8ac6161a103bbdfd5fe3ef2022d91027315de

Aliases

arxiv: 1410.5787 · arxiv_version: 1410.5787v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1410.5787 · pith_short_12: ER4ETMPAOKQR · pith_short_16: ER4ETMPAOKQRAWGQ · pith_short_8: ER4ETMPA

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/ER4ETMPAOKQRAWGQPYV6Z2FMMF \
  | 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: 247849b1e072a11058d07e2bece8ac6161a103bbdfd5fe3ef2022d91027315de

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a497db0bc8e9f164cd032848b14719a221865ec00ba37188aed42faa76705aac",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.soc-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-fin.GN",
    "submitted_at": "2014-10-17T17:30:43Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "fbfa34358762086995bd177114ba122364bd21111f138640433772191fa2cf0c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1410.5787",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}