Pith Number

pith:UA7Z3GK7

pith:2016:UA7Z3GK7LAE5U5KS4YK4SLGB4W

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Stirling Stuff

John S. Reid

arxiv:1604.02362 v2 · 2016-04-08 · physics.hist-ph

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{UA7Z3GK7LAE5U5KS4YK4SLGB4W}

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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	2026-05-18T00:18:27.114507Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a03f9d995f5809da7552e615c92cc1e5b7180dffc09490a6f394350b89843fde

Aliases

arxiv: 1604.02362 · arxiv_version: 1604.02362v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1604.02362 · pith_short_12: UA7Z3GK7LAE5 · pith_short_16: UA7Z3GK7LAE5U5KS · pith_short_8: UA7Z3GK7

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/UA7Z3GK7LAE5U5KS4YK4SLGB4W \
  | 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: a03f9d995f5809da7552e615c92cc1e5b7180dffc09490a6f394350b89843fde

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2a44d256af336f9fb3515725adf198c6172d1dee7547875b68139d56dc1ada4f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.hist-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2016-04-08T14:48:27Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d936951212431c17829af79d166f10767ad9b0acf27cba3b04666e2f7e5adc0c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1604.02362",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}