Pith Number

pith:K2IELEPV

pith:2016:K2IELEPVBXEFDNLRGJAO52TUBW

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

On Vague Computers

Apostolos Syropoulos

arxiv:1709.10373 v1 · 2016-11-21 · cs.OH

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{K2IELEPVBXEFDNLRGJAO52TUBW}

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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	2026-05-18T00:34:03.364834Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

56904591f50dc851b5713240eeea740dbdba9aa86d157bed5ba77c9d89467b90

Aliases

arxiv: 1709.10373 · arxiv_version: 1709.10373v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1709.10373 · pith_short_12: K2IELEPVBXEF · pith_short_16: K2IELEPVBXEFDNLR · pith_short_8: K2IELEPV

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/K2IELEPVBXEFDNLRGJAO52TUBW \
  | 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: 56904591f50dc851b5713240eeea740dbdba9aa86d157bed5ba77c9d89467b90

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "381cb6405fa5b96c724db02e92c2d0a8106dd1d740246c7a3c9e3bb4a992fc17",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.OH",
    "submitted_at": "2016-11-21T13:47:21Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5e661b8e57fc4a5927876b765346ac7faeda6ac138228f0a8cf239d32ba20d65"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1709.10373",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}