Pith Number

pith:WTEGPDD2

pith:2017:WTEGPDD2Y2H3S5NF63UGCMO7QZ

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A Practical Approach for Successive Omniscience

Ni Ding, Parastoo Sadeghi, Rodney A. Kennedy

arxiv:1701.06290 v1 · 2017-01-23 · cs.IT · math.IT

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WTEGPDD2Y2H3S5NF63UGCMO7QZ}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:52:18.755916Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b4c8678c7ac68fb975a5f6e86131df865005f21d9fdd4d5414ddeb2fcfdb4b5d

Aliases

arxiv: 1701.06290 · arxiv_version: 1701.06290v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1701.06290 · pith_short_12: WTEGPDD2Y2H3 · pith_short_16: WTEGPDD2Y2H3S5NF · pith_short_8: WTEGPDD2

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/WTEGPDD2Y2H3S5NF63UGCMO7QZ \
  | 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: b4c8678c7ac68fb975a5f6e86131df865005f21d9fdd4d5414ddeb2fcfdb4b5d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "88f9253e28c690cbf8942b2038e09e64f3ceb5f2f245a969ef67ab150b94a525",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2017-01-23T08:11:09Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "62c1d43bdb88684d7a1abef07e415b833c50b4ad7c3c519d1c3d8758ac337879"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1701.06290",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}