Pith Number

pith:3S6ZUZWP

pith:2016:3S6ZUZWPZ5AGH5XHUX4CPGZG7V

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Role of Experiments in the Progress of Science: Lessons from our History

D. P. Roy

arxiv:1610.08254 v1 · 2016-10-26 · physics.hist-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3S6ZUZWPZ5AGH5XHUX4CPGZG7V}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T01:01:14.575246Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

dcbd9a66cfcf4063f6e7a5f8279b26fd553079ab6cf93141d1fb4015e144843c

Aliases

arxiv: 1610.08254 · arxiv_version: 1610.08254v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1610.08254 · pith_short_12: 3S6ZUZWPZ5AG · pith_short_16: 3S6ZUZWPZ5AGH5XH · pith_short_8: 3S6ZUZWP

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/3S6ZUZWPZ5AGH5XHUX4CPGZG7V \
  | 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: dcbd9a66cfcf4063f6e7a5f8279b26fd553079ab6cf93141d1fb4015e144843c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "55257ae454843a60295292799243813bd547f150212b51aabf1e5139d97c505f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.hist-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2016-10-26T09:43:40Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4327996e3622931145c1fd62d031ec992f3113507c5702cd47eb53a3de1a38d7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1610.08254",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}