Pith Number

pith:Y7NIVC7W

pith:2011:Y7NIVC7WI4PW6DFJD4LPHAZT5K

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Seeking Meaning in a Space Made out of Strokes, Radicals, Characters and Compounds

Yannis Haralambous

arxiv:1104.4321 v1 · 2011-04-21 · cs.CL

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{Y7NIVC7WI4PW6DFJD4LPHAZT5K}

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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	2026-05-18T04:23:44.571925Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c7da8a8bf6471f6f0ca91f16f38333eab0a2f83607156372b66967345e9d2ca9

Aliases

arxiv: 1104.4321 · arxiv_version: 1104.4321v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1104.4321 · pith_short_12: Y7NIVC7WI4PW · pith_short_16: Y7NIVC7WI4PW6DFJ · pith_short_8: Y7NIVC7W

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/Y7NIVC7WI4PW6DFJD4LPHAZT5K \
  | 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: c7da8a8bf6471f6f0ca91f16f38333eab0a2f83607156372b66967345e9d2ca9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "901c217aaa47b3688106a7e23efde769363c07ec74ec494cc14728546fb5cd03",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2011-04-21T17:56:50Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e906dd1f50807e12478b4c68060eb225468b2fb906298a52ed2448d3ebf8ab9b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1104.4321",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}