Pith Number

pith:C6CNT45K

pith:2017:C6CNT45KI4C5HHDM3TBQ4LNNDA

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Fault-Tolerant Dot-Product Engines

Ron M. Roth

arxiv:1708.06892 v1 · 2017-08-23 · cs.IT · math.IT

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{C6CNT45KI4C5HHDM3TBQ4LNNDA}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:36:48.922583Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

1784d9f3aa4705d39c6cdcc30e2dad183df410c39477ff925a57e14f8bfe9734

Aliases

arxiv: 1708.06892 · arxiv_version: 1708.06892v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1708.06892 · pith_short_12: C6CNT45KI4C5 · pith_short_16: C6CNT45KI4C5HHDM · pith_short_8: C6CNT45K

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/C6CNT45KI4C5HHDM3TBQ4LNNDA \
  | 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: 1784d9f3aa4705d39c6cdcc30e2dad183df410c39477ff925a57e14f8bfe9734

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "eafa52f62d0cd9bb05c510e5592eb99f0511001b1f27bd602a75af7c084aac42",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2017-08-23T05:58:36Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "164e0fbf09ab30e624c2259fed2772d8051d98b30e64b24aefd97d6d1ba8a9d0"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1708.06892",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}