Pith Number

pith:5TDCDT2B

pith:2014:5TDCDT2BYB7M4TO6ALNG3Q7RAH

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The Foundation of Big Data: Experiments, Formulation, and Applications

Robert C. Qiu

arxiv:1412.6570 v1 · 2014-12-20 · cs.IT · math.IT

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5TDCDT2BYB7M4TO6ALNG3Q7RAH}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T02:30:46.590663Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ecc621cf41c07ece4dde02da6dc3f101fe79c156cc2a17e07960567fc73548f5

Aliases

arxiv: 1412.6570 · arxiv_version: 1412.6570v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1412.6570 · pith_short_12: 5TDCDT2BYB7M · pith_short_16: 5TDCDT2BYB7M4TO6 · pith_short_8: 5TDCDT2B

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/5TDCDT2BYB7M4TO6ALNG3Q7RAH \
  | 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: ecc621cf41c07ece4dde02da6dc3f101fe79c156cc2a17e07960567fc73548f5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6cba88dc5c8ea52c80337050a91e1a37493c5a241b46f370e8042fd30da04f2d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2014-12-20T01:14:55Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7db6632d2321efa57b905e05e0a97a0e14f8c4227846cc6627c22dfbcaaa64da"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1412.6570",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}