Pith Number

pith:G2FEVBKS

pith:2017:G2FEVBKSWMF2VJ5AVBRFYNSWHX

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Fiducial on a string

Bo Henry Lindqvist, Gunnar Taraldsen

arxiv:1706.03805 v1 · 2017-06-12 · stat.OT

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{G2FEVBKSWMF2VJ5AVBRFYNSWHX}

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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	2026-05-18T00:42:28.326808Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

368a4a8552b30baaa7a0a8625c36563dde22a45135283d8dc4336596e9873f68

Aliases

arxiv: 1706.03805 · arxiv_version: 1706.03805v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1706.03805 · pith_short_12: G2FEVBKSWMF2 · pith_short_16: G2FEVBKSWMF2VJ5A · pith_short_8: G2FEVBKS

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/G2FEVBKSWMF2VJ5AVBRFYNSWHX \
  | 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: 368a4a8552b30baaa7a0a8625c36563dde22a45135283d8dc4336596e9873f68

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6f7bab2fb4813edb7aa09ff8f6c3ba64b900d293c575dfbf4f8662f0146acade",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.OT",
    "submitted_at": "2017-06-12T18:43:19Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4f00529ba214adc53335778a658435d85ca0119148929ed0ebb1ebbb4f88c80d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1706.03805",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}