Pith Number

pith:BGIW2Z3S

pith:2013:BGIW2Z3SCPPUMFKSPGRCPANTDY

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Abstraction in Belief Networks: The Role of Intermediate States in Diagnostic Reasoning

Gregory M. Provan

arxiv:1302.4979 v1 · 2013-02-20 · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BGIW2Z3SCPPUMFKSPGRCPANTDY}

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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	2026-05-18T03:33:00.651153Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

09916d677213df46155279a22781b31e275acefa7edc8d5a11901d03cc4fe943

Aliases

arxiv: 1302.4979 · arxiv_version: 1302.4979v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1302.4979 · pith_short_12: BGIW2Z3SCPPU · pith_short_16: BGIW2Z3SCPPUMFKS · pith_short_8: BGIW2Z3S

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/BGIW2Z3SCPPUMFKSPGRCPANTDY \
  | 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: 09916d677213df46155279a22781b31e275acefa7edc8d5a11901d03cc4fe943

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "99182eb20aebd2a457eaaf70a9589ed513cc79bd12a10250596aa3d16ac7268c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2013-02-20T15:23:19Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8eef0594ff9910ae073223798f663c671c3bfecd54bd470ae86c5e1e482c2ca5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1302.4979",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}