Pith Number

pith:BCAIBP6D

pith:2012:BCAIBP6D5GN3YUSHARGERYR6XA

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Selecting Computations: Theory and Applications

David Tolpin, Nicholas Hay, Solomon Eyal Shimony, Stuart Russell

arxiv:1207.5879 v1 · 2012-07-25 · cs.AI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BCAIBP6D5GN3YUSHARGERYR6XA}

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T03:50:10.048439Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

088080bfc3e99bbc5247044c48e23eb823436b65e9aae1e086d05cd68ed2c953

Aliases

arxiv: 1207.5879 · arxiv_version: 1207.5879v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1207.5879 · pith_short_12: BCAIBP6D5GN3 · pith_short_16: BCAIBP6D5GN3YUSH · pith_short_8: BCAIBP6D

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/BCAIBP6D5GN3YUSHARGERYR6XA \
  | 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: 088080bfc3e99bbc5247044c48e23eb823436b65e9aae1e086d05cd68ed2c953

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "070a94b573a18c3650c77928281fe358739d13ba64ea281eda15d5edeffd5d2e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2012-07-25T03:31:08Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "76cf88eea0ed89d8d20b080b4afdf768c10ffa6817e36d285896a4b41d3d6783"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1207.5879",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}