Pith Number

pith:5Z2Y3SH6

pith:2016:5Z2Y3SH6C2EZQK2JEIW62DRTKB

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Structured Unit Testable Templated Code for Efficient Code Review Process

Amol Patwardhan

arxiv:1610.05726 v1 · 2016-08-09 · cs.SE

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5Z2Y3SH6C2EZQK2JEIW62DRTKB}

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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	2026-05-18T01:01:58.538160Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ee758dc8fe1689982b49222ded0e33507024702640e95b490850c9172de3d1ec

Aliases

arxiv: 1610.05726 · arxiv_version: 1610.05726v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1610.05726 · pith_short_12: 5Z2Y3SH6C2EZ · pith_short_16: 5Z2Y3SH6C2EZQK2J · pith_short_8: 5Z2Y3SH6

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/5Z2Y3SH6C2EZQK2JEIW62DRTKB \
  | 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: ee758dc8fe1689982b49222ded0e33507024702640e95b490850c9172de3d1ec

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "958261c73dfcafb534576676ce149b398df62f0c24e53270bc5d21e7f984d5dd",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2016-08-09T05:26:21Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "93663aafe4fbd5f10e9725954df003fafb2ea79beee2558fe7bbdf38b7412a8b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1610.05726",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}