Pith Number

pith:37EELHWQ

pith:2017:37EELHWQMQ4XYBVKZXFSWR3K6P

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Contextuality from missing and versioned data

Jason Morton

arxiv:1708.03264 v1 · 2017-08-10 · cs.DB · cs.DC · stat.CO

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{37EELHWQMQ4XYBVKZXFSWR3K6P}

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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	2026-05-18T00:38:14.293239Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

dfc8459ed064397c06aacdcb2b476af3fc98c6d31e2cbb7b7eb760cd44df891b

Aliases

arxiv: 1708.03264 · arxiv_version: 1708.03264v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1708.03264 · pith_short_12: 37EELHWQMQ4X · pith_short_16: 37EELHWQMQ4XYBVK · pith_short_8: 37EELHWQ

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/37EELHWQMQ4XYBVKZXFSWR3K6P \
  | 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: dfc8459ed064397c06aacdcb2b476af3fc98c6d31e2cbb7b7eb760cd44df891b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ada567fe86bcd056059d4d39ad4911e397f81d02666ad7f6ad842a0a3df99a37",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DC",
      "stat.CO"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DB",
    "submitted_at": "2017-08-10T15:37:53Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "37afc03fb1b91fbd2b60ee5fac015ab080afe75b7092d6dfaf2401df937acf49"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1708.03264",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}