Pith Number

pith:BWYNGUKV

pith:1995:BWYNGUKV4WR5WJS5WBZXWWMMFH

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Contiguous relations, continued fractions and orthogonality

David R. Masson, Dharma P. Gupta

arxiv:math/9511218 v1 · 1995-11-02 · math.CA

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BWYNGUKV4WR5WJS5WBZXWWMMFH}

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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	2026-05-18T01:05:48.078698Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0db0d35155e5a3db265db0737b598c29ca07665dbd5b4b63b0363a6a605e147c

Aliases

arxiv: math/9511218 · arxiv_version: math/9511218v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.math/9511218 · pith_short_12: BWYNGUKV4WR5 · pith_short_16: BWYNGUKV4WR5WJS5 · pith_short_8: BWYNGUKV

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/BWYNGUKV4WR5WJS5WBZXWWMMFH \
  | 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: 0db0d35155e5a3db265db0737b598c29ca07665dbd5b4b63b0363a6a605e147c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b3d7141a84bac11b01ff999e7b63e57ff3533948a9f71ac4e147f4afe1c63f51",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "math.CA",
    "submitted_at": "1995-11-02T00:00:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1fda90ed543c1136e81f0d66dc350132b1a7b8e20c8e2c40d48fcf1e1cbfc066"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "math/9511218",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}