Pith Number

pith:43PSU3AM

pith:2016:43PSU3AMMZXEAVUWD7DZWOO4VQ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

VIF: Virtual Interactive Fiction (with a twist)

J\'er\'emy Frey (Potioc, UB)

arxiv:1606.02427 v1 · 2016-06-08 · cs.HC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{43PSU3AMMZXEAVUWD7DZWOO4VQ}

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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	2026-05-18T01:12:41.392021Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e6df2a6c0c666e4056961fc79b39dcac35df8528d5cca5567cabc4b93cc4f70c

Aliases

arxiv: 1606.02427 · arxiv_version: 1606.02427v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1606.02427 · pith_short_12: 43PSU3AMMZXE · pith_short_16: 43PSU3AMMZXEAVUW · pith_short_8: 43PSU3AM

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/43PSU3AMMZXEAVUWD7DZWOO4VQ \
  | 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: e6df2a6c0c666e4056961fc79b39dcac35df8528d5cca5567cabc4b93cc4f70c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7525084302e00cd67803d32c2b6d23eec3ab902d0b0a8cf73bc594cd6606ebd1",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.HC",
    "submitted_at": "2016-06-08T07:14:24Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9d66edfbad0572b9de02d6c3ead9974283d18bd04c328e5c51d8252c73e453b2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1606.02427",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}