Pith Number

pith:ABWF7VVB

pith:2013:ABWF7VVB7MXNZJTDWDSO74FYZQ

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An Analysis of the 'Blind Variation and Selective Retention' Theory of Creativity

Liane Gabora

arxiv:1309.4692 v2 · 2013-09-18 · q-bio.NC · q-bio.PE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ABWF7VVB7MXNZJTDWDSO74FYZQ}

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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	2026-05-17T23:41:57.061585Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

006c5fd6a1fb2edca663b0e4eff0b8cc1ddd2995187b79c7e67ca045e63f0aeb

Aliases

arxiv: 1309.4692 · arxiv_version: 1309.4692v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1309.4692 · pith_short_12: ABWF7VVB7MXN · pith_short_16: ABWF7VVB7MXNZJTD · pith_short_8: ABWF7VVB

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/ABWF7VVB7MXNZJTDWDSO74FYZQ \
  | 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: 006c5fd6a1fb2edca663b0e4eff0b8cc1ddd2995187b79c7e67ca045e63f0aeb

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "cd3bd8f1204ec189e38c12040e5c887257d650364bb28584064ed4a20ccda96d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "q-bio.PE"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.NC",
    "submitted_at": "2013-09-18T16:16:35Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5857c311bcf4aff4666b24859859533c54f612b635f8bf64b5bb5be4f8f7fff0"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1309.4692",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}