Pith Number

pith:BOTP6ZBQ

pith:2025:BOTP6ZBQGFFFFGGVMCAHLUTVSN

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Searching for actual causes: Approximate algorithms with adjustable precision

Ada Diaconescu, Jean-Louis Dessalles, Samuel Reyd

arxiv:2507.07857 v1 · 2025-07-10 · cs.AI

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BOTP6ZBQGFFFFGGVMCAHLUTVSN}

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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	2026-07-05T11:35:06.249468Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0ba6ff6430314a5298d5608075d2759373f1eebcac8a78503f8157937dceca5a

Aliases

arxiv: 2507.07857 · arxiv_version: 2507.07857v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2507.07857 · pith_short_12: BOTP6ZBQGFFF · pith_short_16: BOTP6ZBQGFFFFGGV · pith_short_8: BOTP6ZBQ

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/BOTP6ZBQGFFFFGGVMCAHLUTVSN \
  | 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: 0ba6ff6430314a5298d5608075d2759373f1eebcac8a78503f8157937dceca5a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8db95b19860bfa7f4f62109e88387aed4aecbd465735d3804d52bfb78b525603",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2025-07-10T15:39:36Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "069adf8f910e4d68923ca177d624cc1fe334e5217c60d91c21e09f0c5701d290"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2507.07857",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}