Pith Number

pith:DU2YF2BT

pith:2024:DU2YF2BT44U5BXTVDOQYXTYWJH

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Approximating Mathematical Constants using Minecraft

Michael Weselcouch, Molly Lynch

arxiv:2411.18464 v1 · 2024-11-27 · math.HO

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{DU2YF2BT44U5BXTVDOQYXTYWJH}

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✓ 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	2026-07-05T09:41:16.744731Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

1d3582e833e729d0de751ba18bcf1649cc7d261cbe5ebabb8b03dd32443a0b3e

Aliases

arxiv: 2411.18464 · arxiv_version: 2411.18464v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2411.18464 · pith_short_12: DU2YF2BT44U5 · pith_short_16: DU2YF2BT44U5BXTV · pith_short_8: DU2YF2BT

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/DU2YF2BT44U5BXTVDOQYXTYWJH \
  | 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: 1d3582e833e729d0de751ba18bcf1649cc7d261cbe5ebabb8b03dd32443a0b3e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0c572390c816c4a624cdbb36210ccaf4cae543e41af38872d5c4cbf8e86890d6",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.HO",
    "submitted_at": "2024-11-27T15:56:21Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3e445c499bad5c2c9c1f16a1a9ceaaaea4314647e1e795246bd05c24ee3b40a0"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2411.18464",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}