Pith Number

pith:5R5VJADC

pith:2014:5R5VJADCYA26SF2XH33ZW6WPPW

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On computation with 'probabilities' modulo k

Niel de Beaudrap

arxiv:1405.7381 v2 · 2014-05-28 · cs.CC · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5R5VJADCYA26SF2XH33ZW6WPPW}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T02:30:40.272286Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ec7b548062c035e917573ef79b7acf7d9b09c860068189618d066b297bde8aa6

Aliases

arxiv: 1405.7381 · arxiv_version: 1405.7381v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1405.7381 · pith_short_12: 5R5VJADCYA26 · pith_short_16: 5R5VJADCYA26SF2X · pith_short_8: 5R5VJADC

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/5R5VJADCYA26SF2XH33ZW6WPPW \
  | 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: ec7b548062c035e917573ef79b7acf7d9b09c860068189618d066b297bde8aa6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "95f24429e127af00f6477960bf2aa9549f916fcad8282777608c467ed2369506",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "quant-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CC",
    "submitted_at": "2014-05-28T20:01:13Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5edaeffb456606b68b44e205ed55ae8a664527d7b1efe3f2c0c5e072bbbdc5a8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1405.7381",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}