Pith Number

pith:RS5FGCM6

pith:2017:RS5FGCM6R2L5ICTNMUOEX5NY4O

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Deriving Quests from Open World Mechanics

Chris Martens, Ryan Alexander

arxiv:1705.00341 v1 · 2017-04-30 · cs.MM · cs.AI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RS5FGCM6R2L5ICTNMUOEX5NY4O}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:45:20.704282Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8cba53099e8e97d40a6d651c4bf5b8e3a612a3f1b68aade4dea1fdfd3dfd0873

Aliases

arxiv: 1705.00341 · arxiv_version: 1705.00341v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1705.00341 · pith_short_12: RS5FGCM6R2L5 · pith_short_16: RS5FGCM6R2L5ICTN · pith_short_8: RS5FGCM6

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/RS5FGCM6R2L5ICTNMUOEX5NY4O \
  | 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: 8cba53099e8e97d40a6d651c4bf5b8e3a612a3f1b68aade4dea1fdfd3dfd0873

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f26db4d4875771e9a20c588c842f84a5a24151164cdc71c3d6e7e08f592c56fa",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.MM",
    "submitted_at": "2017-04-30T16:47:57Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "46b6fbe42b9e88baee98f2e53a0442cca58f98adc08ba3f66612500fc3cf8391"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1705.00341",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}