Pith Number

pith:S6R3FHPQ

pith:2026:S6R3FHPQN6LSM7O5LA7QDH2OLW

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Difference-Making without Making a Difference

Sander Beckers

arxiv:2606.24832 v1 · 2026-06-23 · cs.AI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{S6R3FHPQN6LSM7O5LA7QDH2OLW}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-06-24T01:15:43.475131Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

97a3b29df06f97267ddd583f019f4e5d9ee8ace011ba52d1933ca6465dad3a5d

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.24832 · arxiv_version: 2606.24832v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.24832 · pith_short_12: S6R3FHPQN6LS · pith_short_16: S6R3FHPQN6LSM7O5 · pith_short_8: S6R3FHPQ

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/S6R3FHPQN6LSM7O5LA7QDH2OLW \
  | 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: 97a3b29df06f97267ddd583f019f4e5d9ee8ace011ba52d1933ca6465dad3a5d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "abc2a1915b7631e44ff4d5f1b6e583f13556213acc4fb58b4cdbca16a0cae8f2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-23T17:15:26Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "76d989ea7f7530fd91dbe68093dc1895f5cb2fd2e8ea7e7312f65db0877f0135"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.24832",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}