Pith Number

pith:ETRRZSJ5

pith:2016:ETRRZSJ5XMEO5HX6SKBSV7IYKV

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From Simplicity to Complexity Based on Consensus: A Case Study

Shuai Li, Yinyan Zhang

arxiv:1610.09482 v1 · 2016-10-29 · cs.SY

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ETRRZSJ5XMEO5HX6SKBSV7IYKV}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:44:57.665116Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

24e31cc93dbb08ee9efe92832afd18555d39d9d417a43fb9da9c85a7ca28f967

Aliases

arxiv: 1610.09482 · arxiv_version: 1610.09482v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1610.09482 · pith_short_12: ETRRZSJ5XMEO · pith_short_16: ETRRZSJ5XMEO5HX6 · pith_short_8: ETRRZSJ5

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/ETRRZSJ5XMEO5HX6SKBSV7IYKV \
  | 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: 24e31cc93dbb08ee9efe92832afd18555d39d9d417a43fb9da9c85a7ca28f967

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3b630f31e85d69bfcf167025eaa0940c5f100d32a791bed00c4715762816ea02",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SY",
    "submitted_at": "2016-10-29T10:10:58Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d39ebf49d3b2a7dde326717e9156959cf5d6f4080046430a85da7e310e286e7d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1610.09482",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}