Pith Number

pith:CLXFZKLO

pith:2015:CLXFZKLONAUQQMBHWBDGFYBLFA

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Better Than Earth

Ren\'e Heller

arxiv:1503.00701 v1 · 2015-03-02 · astro-ph.EP

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{CLXFZKLONAUQQMBHWBDGFYBLFA}

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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	2026-05-18T02:25:49.484881Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

12ee5ca96e6829083027b04662e02b282de60cbfb9d1e16a064f4947462346cc

Aliases

arxiv: 1503.00701 · arxiv_version: 1503.00701v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1503.00701 · pith_short_12: CLXFZKLONAUQ · pith_short_16: CLXFZKLONAUQQMBH · pith_short_8: CLXFZKLO

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/CLXFZKLONAUQQMBHWBDGFYBLFA \
  | 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: 12ee5ca96e6829083027b04662e02b282de60cbfb9d1e16a064f4947462346cc

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "80604480c9f21c792ea16ce6a2f529c8d1b1f582910922df39d0971b0abfbb70",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.EP",
    "submitted_at": "2015-03-02T20:40:29Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "36fae88cb1217f53bdb793bc4c73fb81ea8ca168d24cfb858cc4de9d337fb191"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1503.00701",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}