Pith Number

pith:C7P4VF46

pith:2016:C7P4VF46RDGVYIVNB5Y5Z47HZS

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Balanced Reed-Solomon Codes

Babak Hassibi, Wael Halbawi, Zihan Liu

arxiv:1601.07283 v1 · 2016-01-27 · cs.IT · math.IT

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{C7P4VF46RDGVYIVNB5Y5Z47HZS}

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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	2026-05-18T01:21:46.210490Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

17dfca979e88cd5c22ad0f71dcf3e7cc9f957888f8792e4dac3ae123caed0221

Aliases

arxiv: 1601.07283 · arxiv_version: 1601.07283v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1601.07283 · pith_short_12: C7P4VF46RDGV · pith_short_16: C7P4VF46RDGVYIVN · pith_short_8: C7P4VF46

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/C7P4VF46RDGVYIVNB5Y5Z47HZS \
  | 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: 17dfca979e88cd5c22ad0f71dcf3e7cc9f957888f8792e4dac3ae123caed0221

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f183547ac8e7591c66dda49081ca261a31933fafc5aae7ec95f7830cf9af9f89",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2016-01-27T08:06:27Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6fbcbefd92780afee5775719de74eda07d6ea65488668d9f43afd195742a1546"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1601.07283",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}