Pith Number

pith:26EFPGYK

pith:2016:26EFPGYKCMSAYPRNWASFPS5HQU

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How to Discreetly Spread a Rumor in a Crowd

Calvin Newport, Mohsen Ghaffari

arxiv:1607.05697 v1 · 2016-07-19 · cs.DS · cs.SI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{26EFPGYKCMSAYPRNWASFPS5HQU}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T01:10:46.230764Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d788579b0a13240c3e2db02457cba7852ee66a3e71691bfd1e04403d08fa1267

Aliases

arxiv: 1607.05697 · arxiv_version: 1607.05697v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1607.05697 · pith_short_12: 26EFPGYKCMSA · pith_short_16: 26EFPGYKCMSAYPRN · pith_short_8: 26EFPGYK

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/26EFPGYKCMSAYPRNWASFPS5HQU \
  | 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: d788579b0a13240c3e2db02457cba7852ee66a3e71691bfd1e04403d08fa1267

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6c7a1632dc5f151ed4388271e4c83d69d1b74e0f034a866060b42944ea13452c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.SI"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2016-07-19T18:53:11Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "26e7a262c5ee71b0f30115a6f5b879716531b4c0dc975016a9e46796aee198f1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1607.05697",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}