Pith Number

pith:BHFRSNB5

pith:2018:BHFRSNB5VFUAAPYQYGLTK447EY

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Illusion of persistence in NBA 1995-2018 regular season data

Aleksejus Kononovicius

arxiv:1810.03383 v1 · 2018-10-08 · physics.soc-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BHFRSNB5VFUAAPYQYGLTK447EY}

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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	2026-05-17T23:55:07.317822Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

09cb19343da968003f10c19735739f263d196bd3dc2cf4c709d5a6eda7daf868

Aliases

arxiv: 1810.03383 · arxiv_version: 1810.03383v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1810.03383 · pith_short_12: BHFRSNB5VFUA · pith_short_16: BHFRSNB5VFUAAPYQ · pith_short_8: BHFRSNB5

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/BHFRSNB5VFUAAPYQYGLTK447EY \
  | 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: 09cb19343da968003f10c19735739f263d196bd3dc2cf4c709d5a6eda7daf868

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f07ba74840f070cadcddd2cd77d5b08b146878feb8a23785a5c27ec6861c3a5f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.soc-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2018-10-08T11:35:52Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "55837e9a0f6d50b6032d341bf34c4589058c727cedfeac9b84c76729629ed367"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1810.03383",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}