Pith Number

pith:NRSB3URF

pith:2015:NRSB3URF7AEAWOYBGQ4MQIMHSB

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Inferring an Indeterminate String from a Prefix Graph

Ali Alatabbi, M. Sohel Rahman, W. F. Smyth

arxiv:1502.07870 v1 · 2015-02-27 · cs.DS

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NRSB3URF7AEAWOYBGQ4MQIMHSB}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T02:26:01.961401Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6c641dd225f8080b3b013438c8218790708f676a7afa6e7bfa440b1d5be1e586

Aliases

arxiv: 1502.07870 · arxiv_version: 1502.07870v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1502.07870 · pith_short_12: NRSB3URF7AEA · pith_short_16: NRSB3URF7AEAWOYB · pith_short_8: NRSB3URF

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/NRSB3URF7AEAWOYBGQ4MQIMHSB \
  | 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: 6c641dd225f8080b3b013438c8218790708f676a7afa6e7bfa440b1d5be1e586

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "087665b0be52731f9352ac4219a7c1f3a99fb9195acd8ec3a6c133f949278ba9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2015-02-27T11:59:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "acfab25c505265f50ee7953327224b700affffa9421354684bee4571e6c85480"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1502.07870",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}