Pith Number

pith:AHGSV2TV

pith:2020:AHGSV2TVCN3N3ARPMME3BXILJZ

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Hints and Principles for Computer System Design

Butler Lampson

arxiv:2011.02455 v3 · 2020-11-03 · cs.DC · cs.OS · cs.SE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{AHGSV2TVCN3N3ARPMME3BXILJZ}

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Record completeness

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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.

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1 paper in Pith

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Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T03:07:26.189840Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

01cd2aea751376dd822f6309b0dd0b4e6f2d1d629eebde413351f9d4acfa3a59

Aliases

arxiv: 2011.02455 · arxiv_version: 2011.02455v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2011.02455 · pith_short_12: AHGSV2TVCN3N · pith_short_16: AHGSV2TVCN3N3ARP · pith_short_8: AHGSV2TV

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/AHGSV2TVCN3N3ARPMME3BXILJZ \
  | 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: 01cd2aea751376dd822f6309b0dd0b4e6f2d1d629eebde413351f9d4acfa3a59

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "65122aa15c577e8e0f61615d6ce8da126eac5a26a999631cd976920c44a8a6ee",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.OS",
      "cs.SE"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2020-11-03T17:40:36Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "77652908eccb3f30472b27f5a3c28ef3c64511c1f5fd259d6bb98f46f37da242"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2011.02455",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}