Pith Number

pith:4ZZE2XKS

pith:2025:4ZZE2XKSSORDHON62Y4IR5D7DV

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A Fragile Number Sense: Probing the Elemental Limits of Numerical Reasoning in LLMs

Aashwin Ananda Mishra, Roussel Rahman

arxiv:2509.06332 v1 · 2025-09-08 · cs.LG · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4ZZE2XKSSORDHON62Y4IR5D7DV}

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T12:06:33.927491Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e6724d5d5293a233b9bed63888f47f1d6893494286311b877062574f9344ebd2

Aliases

arxiv: 2509.06332 · arxiv_version: 2509.06332v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2509.06332 · pith_short_12: 4ZZE2XKSSORD · pith_short_16: 4ZZE2XKSSORDHON6 · pith_short_8: 4ZZE2XKS

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/4ZZE2XKSSORDHON62Y4IR5D7DV \
  | 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: e6724d5d5293a233b9bed63888f47f1d6893494286311b877062574f9344ebd2

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d6632e965f18bfca3fc21fce7d44f5f33ed97420ba95cbc78bb4dd90a0c22a86",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2025-09-08T04:31:12Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "419922923695f11f64e2b3fcf2ea2c9c1f72a39a0dcfe8b5e41aa9061ebc8502"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2509.06332",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}