Pith Number

pith:K3UFZNCM

pith:2015:K3UFZNCM5U324DE4Q3U5HHBXHL

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Farooq Khan

arxiv:1508.02383 v1 · 2015-08-09 · cs.NI

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{K3UFZNCM5U324DE4Q3U5HHBXHL}

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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	2026-05-18T01:35:29.359970Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

56e85cb44ced37ae0c9c86e9d39c373ae859acf891aedc4649ad927189ed3163

Aliases

arxiv: 1508.02383 · arxiv_version: 1508.02383v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1508.02383 · pith_short_12: K3UFZNCM5U32 · pith_short_16: K3UFZNCM5U324DE4 · pith_short_8: K3UFZNCM

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/K3UFZNCM5U324DE4Q3U5HHBXHL \
  | 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: 56e85cb44ced37ae0c9c86e9d39c373ae859acf891aedc4649ad927189ed3163

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7d1b83ad9a5137e20a3fa4dbd2507d79da29946e911e1faecd587479aa79e7e7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.NI",
    "submitted_at": "2015-08-09T18:28:50Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4eaaba54e731970615ec0916e86c5f8a3964b188c7a60263ff237ee0994ae18b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1508.02383",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}