Pith Number

pith:7XBJSHTT

pith:2014:7XBJSHTTZVZ3TSTTQC6RTWT4PV

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The Origin of the Mystical Number Seven in Mesopotamian Culture; Division by Seven in the Sexagesimal Number System

Kazuo Muroi

arxiv:1407.6246 v1 · 2014-07-19 · math.HO

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{7XBJSHTTZVZ3TSTTQC6RTWT4PV}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T02:46:40.117930Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

fdc2991e73cd73b9ca7380bd19da7c7d616a2c1e35ebfb0d2356f64c9a23d397

Aliases

arxiv: 1407.6246 · arxiv_version: 1407.6246v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1407.6246 · pith_short_12: 7XBJSHTTZVZ3 · pith_short_16: 7XBJSHTTZVZ3TSTT · pith_short_8: 7XBJSHTT

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/7XBJSHTTZVZ3TSTTQC6RTWT4PV \
  | 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: fdc2991e73cd73b9ca7380bd19da7c7d616a2c1e35ebfb0d2356f64c9a23d397

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b6dc5524598ffc8c7b03f3d592f230aea8be2c3d464efca80ba3cf55a79dd311",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.HO",
    "submitted_at": "2014-07-19T02:12:38Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "285ea377234ef7cfb7c805164083c7b24e00c697720e7b93545eac84c8bd99cf"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1407.6246",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}