Pith Number

pith:BSDU74D2

pith:2023:BSDU74D2CI4LGDXM27X7Q4L65F

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The Micro-Paper: Towards cheaper, citable research ideas and conversations

Frank Elavsky

arxiv:2302.12854 v2 · 2023-02-24 · cs.DL

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BSDU74D2CI4LGDXM27X7Q4L65F}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-07-05T05:49:44.247688Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0c874ff07a1238b30eecd7eff8717ee9595a7ec28968464b88714b8bf3d9fb29

Aliases

arxiv: 2302.12854 · arxiv_version: 2302.12854v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2302.12854 · pith_short_12: BSDU74D2CI4L · pith_short_16: BSDU74D2CI4LGDXM · pith_short_8: BSDU74D2

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/BSDU74D2CI4LGDXM27X7Q4L65F \
  | 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: 0c874ff07a1238b30eecd7eff8717ee9595a7ec28968464b88714b8bf3d9fb29

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b9ab82333172cb66dd3bbfe54661f00b877c89845bc5f5aece0262a97118c8b1",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DL",
    "submitted_at": "2023-02-24T19:06:46Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "333d0617f589f33d9339a50fd9baad2182e4d0b1e8fb4083e6c17526240daf65"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2302.12854",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}