Pith Number

pith:7NAF7ZDZ

pith:2021:7NAF7ZDZQPDTN3OUP23XWETBWK

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Coalescent Computing

Kyle C. Hale

arxiv:2104.07122 v2 · 2021-04-14 · cs.DC

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{7NAF7ZDZQPDTN3OUP23XWETBWK}

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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	2026-07-05T03:05:49.251617Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

fb405fe47983c736edd47eb77b1261b2869c4af91f69d997ee7b28fa11e17e07

Aliases

arxiv: 2104.07122 · arxiv_version: 2104.07122v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2104.07122 · pith_short_12: 7NAF7ZDZQPDT · pith_short_16: 7NAF7ZDZQPDTN3OU · pith_short_8: 7NAF7ZDZ

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/7NAF7ZDZQPDTN3OUP23XWETBWK \
  | 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: fb405fe47983c736edd47eb77b1261b2869c4af91f69d997ee7b28fa11e17e07

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "94c48049499600f614669d70e7e5a9d86d68d6d270808b4d063a5941947e7515",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2021-04-14T20:54:05Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e9500332c6558485b093b64889a4e5fd4c3507c65f6efa670a1400d6c1b67e89"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2104.07122",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}