Pith Number

pith:XX7TIGEM

pith:2016:XX7TIGEMTPEF2BUI2GBXKZW257

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Random numbers from vacuum fluctuations

Brenda Chng, Christian Kurtsiefer, Yicheng Shi

arxiv:1602.08249 v1 · 2016-02-26 · quant-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{XX7TIGEMTPEF2BUI2GBXKZW257}

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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	2026-05-18T00:43:30.773359Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bdff34188c9bc85d0688d1837566daefed719e7969b5406562eb520e4c5214f9

Aliases

arxiv: 1602.08249 · arxiv_version: 1602.08249v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1602.08249 · pith_short_12: XX7TIGEMTPEF · pith_short_16: XX7TIGEMTPEF2BUI · pith_short_8: XX7TIGEM

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/XX7TIGEMTPEF2BUI2GBXKZW257 \
  | 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: bdff34188c9bc85d0688d1837566daefed719e7969b5406562eb520e4c5214f9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9ee74049f691316a78a8dd2b467fdf8f146cb707e552ef51a2c148111d0eee7f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2016-02-26T09:20:55Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c2a02bfa4c6babda0dfe8bc38636faf8ddb2841f2de7966d375f2e0e9fb6001f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1602.08249",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}