Pith Number

pith:23N5VGFQ

pith:2014:23N5VGFQ6664KYZGDZMDYEKQF2

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Computing With Contextual Numbers

Vahid Moosavi

arxiv:1408.0889 v2 · 2014-08-05 · cs.CE · cs.CV · cs.NE

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{23N5VGFQ6664KYZGDZMDYEKQF2}

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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	2026-05-18T02:45:48.257029Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d6dbda98b0f7bdc563261e583c11502e9e2cfdf2187d4ea0be7c8fe3478339bc

Aliases

arxiv: 1408.0889 · arxiv_version: 1408.0889v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1408.0889 · pith_short_12: 23N5VGFQ6664 · pith_short_16: 23N5VGFQ6664KYZG · pith_short_8: 23N5VGFQ

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/23N5VGFQ6664KYZGDZMDYEKQF2 \
  | 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: d6dbda98b0f7bdc563261e583c11502e9e2cfdf2187d4ea0be7c8fe3478339bc

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "705d08867850c3ff642c72876fc839bc55007271aef40630140843de7a761971",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CV",
      "cs.NE"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CE",
    "submitted_at": "2014-08-05T08:37:11Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1f2d130bfadff4625390088403941530a7ecf4176ff8534c04810c3fde342ac9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1408.0889",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}