Pith Number

pith:ESDGVMAJ

pith:2013:ESDGVMAJPHP2OAUVSLXGQP5AUB

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Stopping the SuperSpreader Epidemic: the lessons from SARS (with, perhaps, applications to MERS)

W. David Wick

arxiv:1308.6534 v1 · 2013-08-29 · q-bio.PE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ESDGVMAJPHP2OAUVSLXGQP5AUB}

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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	2026-05-18T03:14:39.642255Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

24866ab00979dfa7029592ee683fa0a05646edc56f768fe2e9d09a79465e296c

Aliases

arxiv: 1308.6534 · arxiv_version: 1308.6534v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1308.6534 · pith_short_12: ESDGVMAJPHP2 · pith_short_16: ESDGVMAJPHP2OAUV · pith_short_8: ESDGVMAJ

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/ESDGVMAJPHP2OAUVSLXGQP5AUB \
  | 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: 24866ab00979dfa7029592ee683fa0a05646edc56f768fe2e9d09a79465e296c

Canonical record JSON

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  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "27805dcd60ea67446d2ae807475a8b6b3bc16eceab4f329e84113395b6a12a51",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.PE",
    "submitted_at": "2013-08-29T17:44:47Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6ce75e634c29de210faf63f8ddec451947f1b9443a598ddb321df3b48f03e502"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1308.6534",
    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}