Pith Number

pith:33N4IS46

pith:2010:33N4IS46G2KNKBSW37S7T6364G

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Software architecture for an unattended remotely controlled telescope

Robert Lucas, Ulrich Kolb

arxiv:1012.3058 v1 · 2010-12-14 · astro-ph.IM · physics.ed-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{33N4IS46G2KNKBSW37S7T6364G}

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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	2026-05-18T04:33:18.759893Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

dedbc44b9e3694d50656dfe5f9fb7ee1a46189e2d238fbcae028b5afe1ab5188

Aliases

arxiv: 1012.3058 · arxiv_version: 1012.3058v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1012.3058 · pith_short_12: 33N4IS46G2KN · pith_short_16: 33N4IS46G2KNKBSW · pith_short_8: 33N4IS46

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/33N4IS46G2KNKBSW37S7T6364G \
  | 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: dedbc44b9e3694d50656dfe5f9fb7ee1a46189e2d238fbcae028b5afe1ab5188

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a749852818a0673b18105129a23455d91310825048b125279e1c553b2bc16121",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.ed-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.IM",
    "submitted_at": "2010-12-14T15:28:33Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "be374cfa13a39f716783e670f3207c5590c298ce989bcd24579fbc60406cecdc"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1012.3058",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}