Pith Number

pith:BOCYLZZF

pith:2017:BOCYLZZFWMCPFRT7ZIEZPH7QSM

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

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Jeff Shaw, Sergey Kozlov, Thomas Zheng

arxiv:1701.08485 v1 · 2017-01-30 · 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{BOCYLZZFWMCPFRT7ZIEZPH7QSM}

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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	2026-05-18T00:51:53.968842Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0b8585e725b304f2c67fca09979ff093164a02d77fa96a8a6a7f622eea0a646d

Aliases

arxiv: 1701.08485 · arxiv_version: 1701.08485v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1701.08485 · pith_short_12: BOCYLZZFWMCP · pith_short_16: BOCYLZZFWMCPFRT7 · pith_short_8: BOCYLZZF

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/BOCYLZZFWMCPFRT7ZIEZPH7QSM \
  | 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: 0b8585e725b304f2c67fca09979ff093164a02d77fa96a8a6a7f622eea0a646d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "951559e13412fd87f9d5b3b1e7c70f5fdeeb3e27ec76d90f4b4b83f0cc532611",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2017-01-30T05:35:56Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b3fec16755727cd8fee2ec6ac109969ca14c3b34c1470521f64b1c7bbd4a7fc7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1701.08485",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}