Pith Number

pith:FP5P53D6

pith:2012:FP5P53D6JXNJSAKFRT6JT6QLE5

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Stone Age Distributed Computing

Jasmin Smula, Roger Wattenhofer, Yuval Emek

arxiv:1202.1186 v2 · 2012-02-06 · cs.DC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{FP5P53D6JXNJSAKFRT6JT6QLE5}

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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	2026-05-18T03:58:36.610092Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2bfafeec7e4dda9901458cfc99fa0b27789849457f4aabaf42919a883cbd6aa3

Aliases

arxiv: 1202.1186 · arxiv_version: 1202.1186v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1202.1186 · pith_short_12: FP5P53D6JXNJ · pith_short_16: FP5P53D6JXNJSAKF · pith_short_8: FP5P53D6

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/FP5P53D6JXNJSAKFRT6JT6QLE5 \
  | 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: 2bfafeec7e4dda9901458cfc99fa0b27789849457f4aabaf42919a883cbd6aa3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0f0fb6cc1b7633bf30a3b543ddfb25ceb897bb45eac509aa2e1b4cf48b1709b1",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2012-02-06T16:20:06Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1939c2463a06cf0c9edc6ae8ca2015d0ec2cdebb99639d661ee591d06bd5d879"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1202.1186",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}