Pith Number

pith:I25MB5QN

pith:2017:I25MB5QNL6MIPPID7KBZDXZDLM

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Practical Advantages of Almost-Balanced-Weak-Values Metrological Techniques

John C. Howell, Juli\'an Mart\'inez-Rinc\'on, Zekai Chen

arxiv:1703.01632 v2 · 2017-03-05 · physics.optics · physics.ins-det

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{I25MB5QNL6MIPPID7KBZDXZDLM}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:42:29.488667Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

46bac0f60d5f9887bd03fa8391df235b31a77377778e9abbae5e0c3d55e03b0a

Aliases

arxiv: 1703.01632 · arxiv_version: 1703.01632v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1703.01632 · pith_short_12: I25MB5QNL6MI · pith_short_16: I25MB5QNL6MIPPID · pith_short_8: I25MB5QN

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/I25MB5QNL6MIPPID7KBZDXZDLM \
  | 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: 46bac0f60d5f9887bd03fa8391df235b31a77377778e9abbae5e0c3d55e03b0a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3b696f990ac0531ee2944a1b2fcbb07eb8dc1d61e62f95af78c04a62bcf0fdc2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.ins-det"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.optics",
    "submitted_at": "2017-03-05T17:39:53Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d10c765ac89daea47dfacd88ec504c07c50b358bb1c7afe42839ed2a8d39fa0f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1703.01632",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}