Pith Number

pith:2IR3FOZT

pith:2010:2IR3FOZTZFKG4WCKEW4ARGPYEZ

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Actor Model of Computation: Scalable Robust Information Systems

Carl Hewitt

arxiv:1008.1459 v38 · 2010-08-09 · cs.PL · cs.DC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{2IR3FOZTZFKG4WCKEW4ARGPYEZ}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T02:29:01.881505Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d223b2bb33c9546e584a25b80899f82659e6185180d7a9daec5324e13a115376

Aliases

arxiv: 1008.1459 · arxiv_version: 1008.1459v38 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1008.1459 · pith_short_12: 2IR3FOZTZFKG · pith_short_16: 2IR3FOZTZFKG4WCK · pith_short_8: 2IR3FOZT

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/2IR3FOZTZFKG4WCKEW4ARGPYEZ \
  | 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: d223b2bb33c9546e584a25b80899f82659e6185180d7a9daec5324e13a115376

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "420e392fba641bb136dc754b52b0554c75dad82fbe7e32a7504bc7b7b4196470",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DC"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.PL",
    "submitted_at": "2010-08-09T06:52:55Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9ef8b9abdad4ec62087dad3da4f4eb621732c306ed7303848d7ddb1316cbf8dd"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1008.1459",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 38
  }
}