Pith Number

pith:72RLG7NM

pith:2016:72RLG7NMSSJT4GPV5HMH4JDMAI

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Is cancer a disease that can be cured? An answer based on a new classification of diseases

Bertrand M. Roehner, Peter Richmond

arxiv:1609.08285 v1 · 2016-09-27 · physics.med-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{72RLG7NMSSJT4GPV5HMH4JDMAI}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T01:03:46.230062Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

fea2b37dac94933e19f5e9d87e246c02068d9051b5126c00ea187a82959e0138

Aliases

arxiv: 1609.08285 · arxiv_version: 1609.08285v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1609.08285 · pith_short_12: 72RLG7NMSSJT · pith_short_16: 72RLG7NMSSJT4GPV · pith_short_8: 72RLG7NM

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/72RLG7NMSSJT4GPV5HMH4JDMAI \
  | 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: fea2b37dac94933e19f5e9d87e246c02068d9051b5126c00ea187a82959e0138

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7848d07b7dad4892a94b58a484291afd12a21c8376323220cc59806822d6f561",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.med-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2016-09-27T07:09:30Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "27e22cdb92c7bb90f1c273398cd7a901b5b9f30a7acaa7f63a2b6d77fc8e52c3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1609.08285",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}