Pith Number

pith:MA4EILBI

pith:2017:MA4EILBIVLKXLUWUSXZQKLWWRZ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

One-Pass Graphic Approximation of Integer Sequences

Brian Cloteaux

arxiv:1712.05240 v2 · 2017-12-14 · cs.DM

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MA4EILBIVLKXLUWUSXZQKLWWRZ}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:27:48.144164Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6038442c28aad575d2d495f3052ed68e5e5b38327dff65ce274f4d8c768611c9

Aliases

arxiv: 1712.05240 · arxiv_version: 1712.05240v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1712.05240 · pith_short_12: MA4EILBIVLKX · pith_short_16: MA4EILBIVLKXLUWU · pith_short_8: MA4EILBI

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/MA4EILBIVLKXLUWUSXZQKLWWRZ \
  | 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: 6038442c28aad575d2d495f3052ed68e5e5b38327dff65ce274f4d8c768611c9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0662c0b2dd42e2cca973386bd5446de4ca84a146ccae50d417b7a843e80f2276",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DM",
    "submitted_at": "2017-12-14T14:14:31Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e02c9d4cf9ba0e336e2745410d4785651f6174019c6cf361d265864505c6218f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1712.05240",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}