Pith Number

pith:3XSSLVFC

pith:2012:3XSSLVFCKSDAWMBXNXQBRJEHON

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Impossible? Publication Quality Research with the Weakest 10% of Incoming Freshmen

Amy Courtney, Michael Courtney

arxiv:1211.7194 v1 · 2012-11-30 · physics.ed-ph

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3XSSLVFCKSDAWMBXNXQBRJEHON}

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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	2026-05-18T03:39:31.354132Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

dde525d4a254860b30376de018a48773689b52821f3208dcf72aea4cf96f8e03

Aliases

arxiv: 1211.7194 · arxiv_version: 1211.7194v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1211.7194 · pith_short_12: 3XSSLVFCKSDA · pith_short_16: 3XSSLVFCKSDAWMBX · pith_short_8: 3XSSLVFC

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/3XSSLVFCKSDAWMBXNXQBRJEHON \
  | 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: dde525d4a254860b30376de018a48773689b52821f3208dcf72aea4cf96f8e03

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "28c3cad07552558ea11f1b2a80ca17c3e5429b852ca47ae6a4df28403798864d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.ed-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2012-11-30T09:23:19Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e55421cfa13d701a8a0d2bd64c0afac4a8206baa5e3ebac8abc91bf588445a8d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1211.7194",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}