Pith Number

pith:RXBJBESH

pith:2017:RXBJBESH3DJJXXPIZ26EVV4PUN

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On Gauss's first proof of the fundamental theorem of algebra

Daniel J. Velleman, Soham Basu

arxiv:1704.06585 v1 · 2017-04-21 · math.CV

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RXBJBESH3DJJXXPIZ26EVV4PUN}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:45:59.314555Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8dc2909247d8d29bdde8cebc4ad78fa358d4a0957aabd9681c8167b9f2be49ec

Aliases

arxiv: 1704.06585 · arxiv_version: 1704.06585v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1704.06585 · pith_short_12: RXBJBESH3DJJ · pith_short_16: RXBJBESH3DJJXXPI · pith_short_8: RXBJBESH

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/RXBJBESH3DJJXXPIZ26EVV4PUN \
  | 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: 8dc2909247d8d29bdde8cebc4ad78fa358d4a0957aabd9681c8167b9f2be49ec

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "56ee0d6ddff1a2aad1f083c92e7932f472b9d7912891cf012f83aa704f79a83a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.CV",
    "submitted_at": "2017-04-21T15:04:05Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7445adde680dc5a8dabfe6fe9ef90f7165292da1b557d5c58b5d9e1f5e80677c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1704.06585",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}