Pith Number

pith:AJ6JNYTX

pith:2014:AJ6JNYTXZGCLQNK3FOAVXBYJNR

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Universal test for Hippocratic randomness

Hayato Takahashi

arxiv:1412.6988 v1 · 2014-12-22 · cs.IT · math.IT

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{AJ6JNYTXZGCLQNK3FOAVXBYJNR}

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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	2026-05-18T02:30:45.829010Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

027c96e277c984b8355b2b815b87096c465914db4f3d913f7c4c7c8bb81f6cb9

Aliases

arxiv: 1412.6988 · arxiv_version: 1412.6988v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1412.6988 · pith_short_12: AJ6JNYTXZGCL · pith_short_16: AJ6JNYTXZGCLQNK3 · pith_short_8: AJ6JNYTX

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/AJ6JNYTXZGCLQNK3FOAVXBYJNR \
  | 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: 027c96e277c984b8355b2b815b87096c465914db4f3d913f7c4c7c8bb81f6cb9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f38da4d3e1262d6154cd5b3c8c7d41d9652c4918e46ea62e15f2ead8c8ea4496",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2014-12-22T14:17:42Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1afd0b8d1247cedd999f2c469436e0048c73920efa969cb504850a86a2bec92c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1412.6988",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}