Pith Number

pith:3PKEDHTP

pith:2013:3PKEDHTPQVE6HUVQOZH7QEIYMH

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

How Did Humans Become So Creative? A Computational Approach

Liane Gabora, Steve DiPaola

arxiv:1308.5032 v4 · 2013-08-23 · cs.NE · cs.AI · cs.MA · q-bio.NC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3PKEDHTPQVE6HUVQOZH7QEIYMH}

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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	2026-05-17T23:41:02.576556Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

dbd4419e6f8549e3d2b0764ff8111861e846fa3552b94818974fb863716fd55c

Aliases

arxiv: 1308.5032 · arxiv_version: 1308.5032v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1308.5032 · pith_short_12: 3PKEDHTPQVE6 · pith_short_16: 3PKEDHTPQVE6HUVQ · pith_short_8: 3PKEDHTP

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/3PKEDHTPQVE6HUVQOZH7QEIYMH \
  | 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: dbd4419e6f8549e3d2b0764ff8111861e846fa3552b94818974fb863716fd55c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3c56bca271f32b45ab7072bb74e6b592b174018f638ba5373600e3d33d56bccd",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "cs.MA",
      "q-bio.NC"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.NE",
    "submitted_at": "2013-08-23T03:05:28Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4410b3ccc90e6aa6e82bc75c7d1e5a0324af9cc50a6d3235164195aaf9eb0fc6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1308.5032",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}