Pith Number

pith:BQUTHGVF

pith:2016:BQUTHGVF3S6L7QE2N3OGSHAOWR

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Sorting with Asymmetric Read and Write Costs

Guy E. Blelloch, Jeremy T. Fineman, Julian Shun, Phillip B. Gibbons, Yan Gu

arxiv:1603.03505 v1 · 2016-03-11 · cs.DS

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BQUTHGVF3S6L7QE2N3OGSHAOWR}

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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	2026-05-18T01:19:10.573679Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0c29339aa5dcbcbfc09a6edc691c0eb4596320c39ac8b1cdbb52b072d3e6ab7f

Aliases

arxiv: 1603.03505 · arxiv_version: 1603.03505v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1603.03505 · pith_short_12: BQUTHGVF3S6L · pith_short_16: BQUTHGVF3S6L7QE2 · pith_short_8: BQUTHGVF

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/BQUTHGVF3S6L7QE2N3OGSHAOWR \
  | 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: 0c29339aa5dcbcbfc09a6edc691c0eb4596320c39ac8b1cdbb52b072d3e6ab7f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1f68a6860a9d67a82f2da1334feae9ea8035b9848931ee800069ba2ad0c8fdbe",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2016-03-11T02:37:36Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3d995b2d14cc8378835fb5dfa6b949558a37e949b88e49d347c65ebc5bb6d9b6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1603.03505",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}