Pith Number

pith:37RCXGC7

pith:2017:37RCXGC7U6FGDSRNLUU4Y6DR2A

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Prediction in logarithmic distance

Henryk Gzyl

arxiv:1703.08696 v4 · 2017-03-25 · math.PR

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{37RCXGC7U6FGDSRNLUU4Y6DR2A}

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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	2026-05-18T00:05:19.841560Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

dfe22b985fa78a61ca2d5d29cc7871d039eb1074379236a7f9ceb9b4c7575533

Aliases

arxiv: 1703.08696 · arxiv_version: 1703.08696v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1703.08696 · pith_short_12: 37RCXGC7U6FG · pith_short_16: 37RCXGC7U6FGDSRN · pith_short_8: 37RCXGC7

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/37RCXGC7U6FGDSRNLUU4Y6DR2A \
  | 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: dfe22b985fa78a61ca2d5d29cc7871d039eb1074379236a7f9ceb9b4c7575533

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a47ae037a4ae8595a45b3ff7ed78d9d32becbd81cebe50cb2d5fb800ea5bc25c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.PR",
    "submitted_at": "2017-03-25T14:12:31Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1e79a4fb2fc7d84fd7e2af98a9949ac58063e64ae2d62a340cf148798a9163db"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1703.08696",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}