Pith Number

pith:C6OQ3XBO

pith:2013:C6OQ3XBOCKVETKTMEARC6GLEET

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Linear list-approximation for short programs (or the power of a few random bits)

Bruno Bauwens, Marius Zimand

arxiv:1311.7278 v2 · 2013-11-28 · cs.CC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{C6OQ3XBOCKVETKTMEARC6GLEET}

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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	2026-05-18T02:29:02.752162Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

179d0ddc2e12aa49aa6c20222f196424e3df1db5c347cd7b4d005f23c0278c83

Aliases

arxiv: 1311.7278 · arxiv_version: 1311.7278v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1311.7278 · pith_short_12: C6OQ3XBOCKVE · pith_short_16: C6OQ3XBOCKVETKTM · pith_short_8: C6OQ3XBO

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/C6OQ3XBOCKVETKTMEARC6GLEET \
  | 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: 179d0ddc2e12aa49aa6c20222f196424e3df1db5c347cd7b4d005f23c0278c83

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c0c5fc9c0b76b7e8650eff5fd911565203430bb4f910c6ef6133de7f12c14189",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CC",
    "submitted_at": "2013-11-28T11:28:31Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e6e791e52ca037084a12ff9ae9929da8a532a265161afa841d753a400aed3827"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1311.7278",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}