Pith Number

pith:BXTFOEY6

pith:2014:BXTFOEY6W6EI44C7LGLCPAG7TV

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Explicit tracking of uncertainty increases the power of quantitative rule-of-thumb reasoning in cell biology

Benjamin C. Rickett, Iain G. Johnston, Nick S. Jones

arxiv:1412.1597 v1 · 2014-12-04 · q-bio.QM · stat.ME

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BXTFOEY6W6EI44C7LGLCPAG7TV}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T02:32:06.898546Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0de657131eb7888e705f59962780df9d59cab4aca1a48700c1990691ec6d3d4f

Aliases

arxiv: 1412.1597 · arxiv_version: 1412.1597v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1412.1597 · pith_short_12: BXTFOEY6W6EI · pith_short_16: BXTFOEY6W6EI44C7 · pith_short_8: BXTFOEY6

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/BXTFOEY6W6EI44C7LGLCPAG7TV \
  | 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: 0de657131eb7888e705f59962780df9d59cab4aca1a48700c1990691ec6d3d4f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "86daf8bbbed6488f4469ec4c6361d8eaa9fc0398b9a25d56b8d77d355e69fb04",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.ME"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.QM",
    "submitted_at": "2014-12-04T09:29:48Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "974d0d219d7dc7e56e53d46ccc7421c5869d9386335361e6f60f6738e287207f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1412.1597",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}