Pith Number

pith:D4IPYYT7

pith:2010:D4IPYYT75FVQPOOVOR4HUMCMYH

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Rules of Thumb for Information Acquisition from Large and Redundant Data

Wolfgang Gatterbauer

arxiv:1012.3502 v1 · 2010-12-16 · cs.IR · cs.DB · physics.data-an

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{D4IPYYT75FVQPOOVOR4HUMCMYH}

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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	2026-05-18T02:23:07.104101Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

1f10fc627fe96b07b9d574787a304cc1f8be2b76d71ca218b8ff33ea04409c22

Aliases

arxiv: 1012.3502 · arxiv_version: 1012.3502v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1012.3502 · pith_short_12: D4IPYYT75FVQ · pith_short_16: D4IPYYT75FVQPOOV · pith_short_8: D4IPYYT7

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/D4IPYYT75FVQPOOVOR4HUMCMYH \
  | 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: 1f10fc627fe96b07b9d574787a304cc1f8be2b76d71ca218b8ff33ea04409c22

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "74ad96cd022a635050b0c56928d501e4e0a2ae0b647092e0f3b6b8fe253eb196",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DB",
      "physics.data-an"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IR",
    "submitted_at": "2010-12-16T02:36:13Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f9cd4ed57abe247ca27a70eb06d1f7d2f522a9960c901e5f6fcec9050d138299"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1012.3502",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}