Pith Number

pith:5USJBKRH

pith:2018:5USJBKRHRVWJEUZ6O2Z5TRVC2W

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George Mathew, Tim Menzies

arxiv:1805.12124 v1 · 2018-05-29 · cs.DL

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5USJBKRHRVWJEUZ6O2Z5TRVC2W}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-05-18T00:14:33.532159Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ed2490aa278d6c92533e76b3d9c6a2d5b54e3df843419bb3fe2e4ab2c56bc2cd

Aliases

arxiv: 1805.12124 · arxiv_version: 1805.12124v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1805.12124 · pith_short_12: 5USJBKRHRVWJ · pith_short_16: 5USJBKRHRVWJEUZ6 · pith_short_8: 5USJBKRH

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/5USJBKRHRVWJEUZ6O2Z5TRVC2W \
  | 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: ed2490aa278d6c92533e76b3d9c6a2d5b54e3df843419bb3fe2e4ab2c56bc2cd

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "56b3c530c8c924400449785053bc652ac7f1c2d16d5e54b020dbc24f4e47f7cf",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DL",
    "submitted_at": "2018-05-29T23:00:37Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5138a2247cfe310f102ae0906158222428a4b47e59bc7a58bf5bda54f383fbe6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1805.12124",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}