Pith Number

pith:MRE6UIE3

pith:2014:MRE6UIE3FC5SZ4JCVVADIOABMP

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Individual gain and engagement with mathematical understanding

Gary E. Davis, Mercedes A. McGowen

arxiv:1406.2269 v1 · 2014-06-05 · math.HO

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MRE6UIE3FC5SZ4JCVVADIOABMP}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T02:50:11.094114Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6449ea209b28bb2cf122ad4034380163cb2e6cab410835365f3dda1ea6eeea7f

Aliases

arxiv: 1406.2269 · arxiv_version: 1406.2269v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1406.2269 · pith_short_12: MRE6UIE3FC5S · pith_short_16: MRE6UIE3FC5SZ4JC · pith_short_8: MRE6UIE3

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/MRE6UIE3FC5SZ4JCVVADIOABMP \
  | 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: 6449ea209b28bb2cf122ad4034380163cb2e6cab410835365f3dda1ea6eeea7f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "588b1d5facf4aa4e8f0e12cac2172619c5b43dc9866d0d8fef8d480b7d822efc",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.HO",
    "submitted_at": "2014-06-05T21:38:02Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "486933d8ba4102fff0c22708d9ace67183cdee6948619968c5547e6203415e64"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1406.2269",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}