Pith Number

pith:3RAJS7GY

pith:2018:3RAJS7GYMQCVQHB54AXN33NZP3

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Towards A Systems Approach To Distributed Programming

Christopher S. Meiklejohn, Peter Van Roy

arxiv:1802.02681 v1 · 2018-02-08 · cs.DC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3RAJS7GYMQCVQHB54AXN33NZP3}

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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	2026-05-18T00:24:03.375440Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

dc40997cd86405581c3de02eddedb97eef7326d4d35b8bcbef2b8cc92176b8a9

Aliases

arxiv: 1802.02681 · arxiv_version: 1802.02681v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1802.02681 · pith_short_12: 3RAJS7GYMQCV · pith_short_16: 3RAJS7GYMQCVQHB5 · pith_short_8: 3RAJS7GY

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/3RAJS7GYMQCVQHB54AXN33NZP3 \
  | 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: dc40997cd86405581c3de02eddedb97eef7326d4d35b8bcbef2b8cc92176b8a9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7ab4afd51a75808cfed0dc563ff6c98942f1dd305488fe1380f8da6a9fbfcbc1",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2018-02-08T01:01:45Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "bdcdb44b7ba98aaf1b4bc9481ac8e196bda053b1ac4608c2b6fc65e80369eb0d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1802.02681",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}