Pith Number

pith:L5SM2GOU

pith:2018:L5SM2GOUOI7APWU6F2CTRBAAP2

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

You Say 'What', I Hear 'Where' and 'Why': (Mis-)Interpreting SQL to Derive Fine-Grained Provenance

Benjamin Dietrich, Tobias M\"uller, Torsten Grust

arxiv:1805.11517 v3 · 2018-05-29 · cs.DB

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{L5SM2GOUOI7APWU6F2CTRBAAP2}

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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	2026-05-18T00:11:48.967170Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5f64cd19d4723e07da9e2e853884007eb91d30727cc8c96cb29b0e98cdc3e380

Aliases

arxiv: 1805.11517 · arxiv_version: 1805.11517v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1805.11517 · pith_short_12: L5SM2GOUOI7A · pith_short_16: L5SM2GOUOI7APWU6 · pith_short_8: L5SM2GOU

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/L5SM2GOUOI7APWU6F2CTRBAAP2 \
  | 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: 5f64cd19d4723e07da9e2e853884007eb91d30727cc8c96cb29b0e98cdc3e380

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8d695a70fe1c2320ce63c34eb188cf2fa02497e8d3b9155fb31c578c88c4c65b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DB",
    "submitted_at": "2018-05-29T14:50:24Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ecb224b464a5a8511a542dd24b958dd635efcc39047ce9c1a5393a2520b564b8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1805.11517",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}