Pith Number

pith:2BQGNLSR

pith:2014:2BQGNLSRWMF7LHZSV2ROWVDD6H

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Guessing games

Anthony Mendes, Kent E. Morrison

arxiv:1401.2493 v1 · 2014-01-11 · cs.GT · math.PR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{2BQGNLSRWMF7LHZSV2ROWVDD6H}

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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	2026-05-18T01:11:21.945762Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d06066ae51b30bf59f32aea2eb5463f1cd92c821a206d457d5d0625ebe544bda

Aliases

arxiv: 1401.2493 · arxiv_version: 1401.2493v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1401.2493 · pith_short_12: 2BQGNLSRWMF7 · pith_short_16: 2BQGNLSRWMF7LHZS · pith_short_8: 2BQGNLSR

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/2BQGNLSRWMF7LHZSV2ROWVDD6H \
  | 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: d06066ae51b30bf59f32aea2eb5463f1cd92c821a206d457d5d0625ebe544bda

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "25915175867ca3d45e20c27d8efac4fe61729d24d72adde40a45f1720c564518",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.PR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.GT",
    "submitted_at": "2014-01-11T01:23:04Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "730f39208ae61988d00ba6fbd420149bfd087c8acdf872d34839c6050754a032"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1401.2493",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}