Pith Number

pith:5TH2VF4C

pith:2015:5TH2VF4CS7MGQB32P6UH6QRECD

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Avoiding Spoilers in Fan Wikis of Episodic Fiction

Michael L. Nelson, Shawn M. Jones

arxiv:1506.06279 v1 · 2015-06-20 · cs.DL

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5TH2VF4CS7MGQB32P6UH6QRECD}

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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	2026-05-18T01:41:45.621072Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

eccfaa978297d868077a7fa87f422410e389d7e48616548f62bf8631a81f209f

Aliases

arxiv: 1506.06279 · arxiv_version: 1506.06279v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1506.06279 · pith_short_12: 5TH2VF4CS7MG · pith_short_16: 5TH2VF4CS7MGQB32 · pith_short_8: 5TH2VF4C

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/5TH2VF4CS7MGQB32P6UH6QRECD \
  | 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: eccfaa978297d868077a7fa87f422410e389d7e48616548f62bf8631a81f209f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f990d60a18289ba2c858ecd0f33bc0468a625b65959e455d2e47109379ed4fb5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DL",
    "submitted_at": "2015-06-20T18:45:12Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e87a0022ad9f947af751989da04f4501a0a31b7b5e8a87f358fbe6002499a421"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1506.06279",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}