Pith Number

pith:76FVDTFM

pith:2017:76FVDTFMWWNHAQCPRE2SZSHK6N

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Distance-Sensitive hashing

Francesco Silvestri, Martin Aum\"uller, Rasmus Pagh, Tobias Christiani

arxiv:1703.07867 v2 · 2017-03-22 · cs.DS

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{76FVDTFMWWNHAQCPRE2SZSHK6N}

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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	2026-05-18T00:18:26.881304Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ff8b51ccacb59a70404f89352cc8eaf36c891d914ca60e042deee031ba33fe75

Aliases

arxiv: 1703.07867 · arxiv_version: 1703.07867v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1703.07867 · pith_short_12: 76FVDTFMWWNH · pith_short_16: 76FVDTFMWWNHAQCP · pith_short_8: 76FVDTFM

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/76FVDTFMWWNHAQCPRE2SZSHK6N \
  | 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: ff8b51ccacb59a70404f89352cc8eaf36c891d914ca60e042deee031ba33fe75

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7cab106e23d22264f46eb7952231c6338e324d7a36acff9c7c9d5ad21dce0e6e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2017-03-22T21:52:05Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9176f54b4649db4e378522b32c94b4773fb32f2f81c2e26d7d7082260cfd34dc"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1703.07867",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}