Pith Number

pith:CXWMG3EW

pith:2016:CXWMG3EWLXBCLIM7XXUFIUJGA7

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The Quantum Computer Puzzle (Expanded Version)

Gil Kalai

arxiv:1605.00992 v1 · 2016-05-03 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{CXWMG3EWLXBCLIM7XXUFIUJGA7}

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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.

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1 paper in Pith

The Argument against Quantum Computers

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T01:15:47.511210Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

15ecc36c965dc225a19fbde854512607ff490490b40805030d05ab9d6a8ee8e9

Aliases

arxiv: 1605.00992 · arxiv_version: 1605.00992v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1605.00992 · pith_short_12: CXWMG3EWLXBC · pith_short_16: CXWMG3EWLXBCLIM7 · pith_short_8: CXWMG3EW

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/CXWMG3EWLXBCLIM7XXUFIUJGA7 \
  | 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: 15ecc36c965dc225a19fbde854512607ff490490b40805030d05ab9d6a8ee8e9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2f54605cd061d72f34f3442e4e551f5d263d9c8cc42d47a3163bbbac5f40d3d3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2016-05-03T17:33:38Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f2a3aaa49e5c93bb5d888eb22207c8f60c452192b7c048dbd2fcdf2b7c029227"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1605.00992",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}