Pith Number

pith:7SVLOF4D

pith:2026:7SVLOF4DC3PTC2UVBSO2WQE4EZ

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Answer-Reconstruction Search Density: Measuring the Query and Source Work Compressed by Conversational Answers

Benjamin Tannenbaum

arxiv:2607.18904 v1 · 2026-07-21 · cs.IR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{7SVLOF4DC3PTC2UVBSO2WQE4EZ}

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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	2026-07-22T01:23:19.107656Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

fcaab7178316df316a950c9dab409c265288d1c226059a46cda08fee25f78b5e

Aliases

arxiv: 2607.18904 · arxiv_version: 2607.18904v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2607.18904 · pith_short_12: 7SVLOF4DC3PT · pith_short_16: 7SVLOF4DC3PTC2UV · pith_short_8: 7SVLOF4D

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/7SVLOF4DC3PTC2UVBSO2WQE4EZ \
  | 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: fcaab7178316df316a950c9dab409c265288d1c226059a46cda08fee25f78b5e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "008740a033e1d3859b5d1bcb1ce49b6859a6085317963021ccfe7574d82381e9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IR",
    "submitted_at": "2026-07-21T09:46:30Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "02a4b6455f335ac00f0e1e2d7b261796f54de26a79d999fa5863933e280e9172"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2607.18904",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}