Pith Number

pith:B6V26NMO

pith:2000:B6V26NMOR3JP6JUCBPJSOO76TI

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Real time encoding of motion: Answerable questions and questionable answers from the fly's visual system

Alexander Borst, Rob de Ruyter van Steveninck, William Bialek

arxiv:physics/0004060 v1 · 2000-04-25 · physics.bio-ph · physics.data-an · q-bio.NC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{B6V26NMOR3JP6JUCBPJSOO76TI}

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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	2026-07-04T14:43:14.779502Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0fabaf358e8ed2ff26820bd3273bfe9a1041b9fa98ad2d2ae056aace48aab090

Aliases

arxiv: physics/0004060 · arxiv_version: physics/0004060v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.physics/0004060 · pith_short_12: B6V26NMOR3JP · pith_short_16: B6V26NMOR3JP6JUC · pith_short_8: B6V26NMO

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/B6V26NMOR3JP6JUCBPJSOO76TI \
  | 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: 0fabaf358e8ed2ff26820bd3273bfe9a1041b9fa98ad2d2ae056aace48aab090

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b21912fafbf84d9cea72a317b925de315ea4c8a6ba79eb126d163a47359b9367",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.data-an",
      "q-bio.NC"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "physics.bio-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2000-04-25T01:52:22Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "316a6fe957780f818322bbef400d215afe951ea383985cedeab93c07a510d889"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "physics/0004060",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}