Pith Number

pith:BQNWSS7Z

pith:2016:BQNWSS7ZSSSGEYV5IMYT23GSJX

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Balanced Permutation Codes

Olgica Milenkovic, Ryan Gabrys

arxiv:1601.06887 v1 · 2016-01-26 · cs.IT · math.IT

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BQNWSS7ZSSSGEYV5IMYT23GSJX}

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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	2026-05-18T01:21:59.591602Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0c1b694bf994a46262bd43313d6cd24df8c1df442ffdf4ac37fb08c099594ded

Aliases

arxiv: 1601.06887 · arxiv_version: 1601.06887v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1601.06887 · pith_short_12: BQNWSS7ZSSSG · pith_short_16: BQNWSS7ZSSSGEYV5 · pith_short_8: BQNWSS7Z

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/BQNWSS7ZSSSGEYV5IMYT23GSJX \
  | 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: 0c1b694bf994a46262bd43313d6cd24df8c1df442ffdf4ac37fb08c099594ded

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e21df1685ce554600a85a42543ed6f040f2d1eb1c0cf1583a6a0cb925538b647",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2016-01-26T04:28:58Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a26682e4320f46d843f19e179da5a3af1c9118e82430a7b28eb47a1ccef7cdab"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1601.06887",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}