Pith Number

pith:GA2CEM5I

pith:2016:GA2CEM5IIV6ZEEZU4ZYSJIYARH

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An Ancient Diophantine Equation with applications to Numerical Curios and Geometric Series

Ajai Choudhry, Jaros{\l}aw Wr\'oblewski

arxiv:1603.06205 v1 · 2016-03-20 · math.NT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{GA2CEM5IIV6ZEEZU4ZYSJIYARH}

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Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T01:18:50.032091Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

30342233a8457d921334e67124a30089efb29aac8a52616d994b1bc2ceb31119

Aliases

arxiv: 1603.06205 · arxiv_version: 1603.06205v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1603.06205 · pith_short_12: GA2CEM5IIV6Z · pith_short_16: GA2CEM5IIV6ZEEZU · pith_short_8: GA2CEM5I

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/GA2CEM5IIV6ZEEZU4ZYSJIYARH \
  | 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: 30342233a8457d921334e67124a30089efb29aac8a52616d994b1bc2ceb31119

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6d4a43b467f8e256e73fe0a90af59847100ab66473ab845f929c7acab28603e6",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.NT",
    "submitted_at": "2016-03-20T11:31:09Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "076f4637f7566f5bb0aa3645db6bc92d40707a07a87fcb808e77a25fc627a999"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1603.06205",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}