Pith Number

pith:CMGHVVQZ

pith:2017:CMGHVVQZDGNORZ7K7GYYKOSIAW

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

An Optimal Choice Dictionary

Torben Hagerup

arxiv:1711.00808 v1 · 2017-11-02 · cs.DS

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{CMGHVVQZDGNORZ7K7GYYKOSIAW}

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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	2026-05-18T00:31:29.479680Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

130c7ad619199ae8e7eaf9b1853a4805ac02e44a5520d9d1dff7ae9294ac20ed

Aliases

arxiv: 1711.00808 · arxiv_version: 1711.00808v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1711.00808 · pith_short_12: CMGHVVQZDGNO · pith_short_16: CMGHVVQZDGNORZ7K · pith_short_8: CMGHVVQZ

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/CMGHVVQZDGNORZ7K7GYYKOSIAW \
  | 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: 130c7ad619199ae8e7eaf9b1853a4805ac02e44a5520d9d1dff7ae9294ac20ed

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "fbc9da39a5303856a2de92d504519359a6d5611f53e0b192dc2c34d6954514e5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2017-11-02T16:39:24Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6eb3f600133714409192e1a078a6fd260542f95eb1477333e88d8c4bfb516ab7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1711.00808",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}