Pith Number

pith:GIWQB4VZ

pith:2020:GIWQB4VZGUPVK7CPJLZZELPMIY

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Alexander Bruce, Scotland's accidental 'Scientific Revolutionary'

Australia), Richard de Grijs (Macquarie University, Sydney

arxiv:2007.12302 v1 · 2020-07-24 · physics.hist-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{GIWQB4VZGUPVK7CPJLZZELPMIY}

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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	2026-07-05T01:21:51.078708Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

322d00f2b9351f557c4f4af3922dec460fe5a79e52049310da481de003f0ba9b

Aliases

arxiv: 2007.12302 · arxiv_version: 2007.12302v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2007.12302 · pith_short_12: GIWQB4VZGUPV · pith_short_16: GIWQB4VZGUPVK7CP · pith_short_8: GIWQB4VZ

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/GIWQB4VZGUPVK7CPJLZZELPMIY \
  | 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: 322d00f2b9351f557c4f4af3922dec460fe5a79e52049310da481de003f0ba9b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "fb74647cd791e78fd0788fb6ca1454e22c86520297962b6a1a64b462af601af8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.hist-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2020-07-24T00:16:46Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4c4a05c6e058fad69fb7f0142fabe9710a7d52a61a700b24ad7ba500ee5e854d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2007.12302",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}