Pith Number

pith:FT3VTX2H

pith:2018:FT3VTX2HL7YGL7FGRDVY25LKLM

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Irreproducibility; Nothing is More Predictable

David Kohn, Hugh Durrant-Whyte, Ian B. Hickie, Nick Glozier, Sally Cripps

arxiv:1803.04481 v1 · 2018-03-12 · stat.AP

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{FT3VTX2HL7YGL7FGRDVY25LKLM}

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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	2026-05-18T00:21:18.939273Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2cf759df475ff065fca688eb8d756a5b134897debf30cdb1bcef2ca3985c6e40

Aliases

arxiv: 1803.04481 · arxiv_version: 1803.04481v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1803.04481 · pith_short_12: FT3VTX2HL7YG · pith_short_16: FT3VTX2HL7YGL7FG · pith_short_8: FT3VTX2H

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/FT3VTX2HL7YGL7FGRDVY25LKLM \
  | 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: 2cf759df475ff065fca688eb8d756a5b134897debf30cdb1bcef2ca3985c6e40

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "17839aa07cbc6f40aaa334bd24d716f770d81616774512ceff86a8141f4e3cf5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.AP",
    "submitted_at": "2018-03-12T19:35:42Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "590a8cb1c535696af3ef1939eae4af910dd18eed2a79efe332bd8c7794b6dd42"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1803.04481",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}