Pith Number

pith:45NDA3KJ

pith:2012:45NDA3KJNVTU26FVTZTOGKBALZ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A Tiled-Table Convention for Compressing FITS Binary Tables

Richard L. White, Rob Seaman, William Pence

arxiv:1201.1340 v1 · 2012-01-06 · astro-ph.IM · cs.DB

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{45NDA3KJNVTU26FVTZTOGKBALZ}

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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	2026-05-18T04:05:04.862946Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e75a306d496d674d78b59e66e328205e649afa7ba7d395601908c28455ad7578

Aliases

arxiv: 1201.1340 · arxiv_version: 1201.1340v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1201.1340 · pith_short_12: 45NDA3KJNVTU · pith_short_16: 45NDA3KJNVTU26FV · pith_short_8: 45NDA3KJ

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/45NDA3KJNVTU26FVTZTOGKBALZ \
  | 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: e75a306d496d674d78b59e66e328205e649afa7ba7d395601908c28455ad7578

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "860cd6717621a956b5daf688d709f110ebaacf9af6deccbd7b784ff52cf5e3c7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DB"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.IM",
    "submitted_at": "2012-01-06T03:01:12Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c1c77660ee5788b993add29adf383928cbadff3fd8830be3d92b69d04ebb617a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1201.1340",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}