Pith Number

pith:MXM6DWRP

pith:1994:MXM6DWRPLUJUR5NTA3RL5YIKDM

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The last of the hypergeometric continued fractions

David R. Masson

arxiv:math/9409229 v1 · 1994-09-12 · math.CA

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\pithnumber{MXM6DWRPLUJUR5NTA3RL5YIKDM}

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:05:51.048298Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

65d9e1da2f5d1348f5b306e2bee10a1b2661cbb3b23a624f798e9d26cfffcdb2

Aliases

arxiv: math/9409229 · arxiv_version: math/9409229v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.math/9409229 · pith_short_12: MXM6DWRPLUJU · pith_short_16: MXM6DWRPLUJUR5NT · pith_short_8: MXM6DWRP

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/MXM6DWRPLUJUR5NTA3RL5YIKDM \
  | 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: 65d9e1da2f5d1348f5b306e2bee10a1b2661cbb3b23a624f798e9d26cfffcdb2

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a1b48bf28f03538922b206fdb03785f9a0306f41f900dd7eab994d4371524ad3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "math.CA",
    "submitted_at": "1994-09-12T00:00:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f17d9ed8d3750b80ab43cb93355cd17680e71cf67a61a933a40b28bd653d14ae"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "math/9409229",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}