Pith Number

pith:E7EBSAKS

pith:2010:E7EBSAKS6UGKN3HCFODJVOHTKO

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Searching for simplicity: Approaches to the analysis of neurons and behavior

Greg J. Stephens, Leslie C. Osborne, William Bialek

arxiv:1012.3896 v1 · 2010-12-17 · q-bio.NC · q-bio.QM

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{E7EBSAKS6UGKN3HCFODJVOHTKO}

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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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First computed	2026-05-18T01:11:13.959126Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

27c8190152f50ca6ece22b869ab8f353b85da64ee26492a4dfeaec168d3411f6

Aliases

arxiv: 1012.3896 · arxiv_version: 1012.3896v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1012.3896 · pith_short_12: E7EBSAKS6UGK · pith_short_16: E7EBSAKS6UGKN3HC · pith_short_8: E7EBSAKS

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/E7EBSAKS6UGKN3HCFODJVOHTKO \
  | 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: 27c8190152f50ca6ece22b869ab8f353b85da64ee26492a4dfeaec168d3411f6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f9ad25f364f0dc48f2076facf425d3cf872aa24d8295c0fd42737e1558c17d95",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "q-bio.QM"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.NC",
    "submitted_at": "2010-12-17T14:51:35Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "98d8132545d2d0f230ad1a54a1219d0a751ef4cf4f066d406b198b470d9d9729"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1012.3896",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}