Pith Number

pith:ZJ6OHTL4

pith:2013:ZJ6OHTL4XH2ZCOAZBNMQ5NLHZL

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Flexible Policy Construction by Information Refinement

David L. Poole, Michael C. Horsch

arxiv:1302.3583 v1 · 2013-02-13 · cs.AI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZJ6OHTL4XH2ZCOAZBNMQ5NLHZL}

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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	2026-05-18T03:33:36.660555Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ca7ce3cd7cb9f59138190b590eb567caf85aa5edf06692eceb602fffb20a2ee7

Aliases

arxiv: 1302.3583 · arxiv_version: 1302.3583v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1302.3583 · pith_short_12: ZJ6OHTL4XH2Z · pith_short_16: ZJ6OHTL4XH2ZCOAZ · pith_short_8: ZJ6OHTL4

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/ZJ6OHTL4XH2ZCOAZBNMQ5NLHZL \
  | 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: ca7ce3cd7cb9f59138190b590eb567caf85aa5edf06692eceb602fffb20a2ee7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3d48e8a9f00a472fd8e40a88f103b7ac766dc2050b181736e650b7316c99c1cc",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2013-02-13T14:14:40Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "599e3a3f59e9f5ad3b5a9f9465f8f396276d696aef8cbdaa1f926aa04ff9c12e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1302.3583",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}