Pith Number

pith:6M6K766X

pith:2025:6M6K766X5TPHGRETYFILBPOXED

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Using Large Language Models to Study Mathematical Practice

William D'Alessandro

arxiv:2507.02873 v1 · 2025-06-16 · math.HO · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{6M6K766X5TPHGRETYFILBPOXED}

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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.

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First computed	2026-07-05T11:31:48.003909Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f33caffbd7ecde734493c150b0bdd720e0787f49312653574bb428d0f49d2735

Aliases

arxiv: 2507.02873 · arxiv_version: 2507.02873v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2507.02873 · pith_short_12: 6M6K766X5TPH · pith_short_16: 6M6K766X5TPHGRET · pith_short_8: 6M6K766X

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/6M6K766X5TPHGRETYFILBPOXED \
  | 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: f33caffbd7ecde734493c150b0bdd720e0787f49312653574bb428d0f49d2735

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f344dd93febdc587f977c22447753d1e6f8701d3c51b4807e7845f3a6da4ac64",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.HO",
    "submitted_at": "2025-06-16T20:22:50Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d7332027d96a78b56e977540cd08cc7a9ea5af66ff0be35806f8a99d2d99179b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2507.02873",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}