Pith Number

pith:BFJF5HEX

pith:2017:BFJF5HEXQ6WOEN7G6ZKOTAHKHC

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Tortoise: Interactive System Configuration Repair

Aaron Weiss, Arjun Guha, Yuriy Brun

arxiv:1709.05366 v1 · 2017-09-15 · cs.SE

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BFJF5HEXQ6WOEN7G6ZKOTAHKHC}

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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	2026-07-05T02:22:15.557929Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

09525e9c9787ace237e6f654e980ea38bde41b3bb3f27aa25570b81e34ccf5e0

Aliases

arxiv: 1709.05366 · arxiv_version: 1709.05366v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1709.05366 · pith_short_12: BFJF5HEXQ6WO · pith_short_16: BFJF5HEXQ6WOEN7G · pith_short_8: BFJF5HEX

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/BFJF5HEXQ6WOEN7G6ZKOTAHKHC \
  | 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: 09525e9c9787ace237e6f654e980ea38bde41b3bb3f27aa25570b81e34ccf5e0

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a61630ce1f4d209fc9ec805726c59bad7ae556ce268317811240cf5cc627a62e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2017-09-15T18:47:37Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4eb0122725d80dde6a2cc1f3f880b9d450b978d32285fed3abf03565ed1bf65d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1709.05366",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}