Pith Number

pith:G4EE7LGS

pith:2017:G4EE7LGSTBUGJA3VCQDUKTJ4CT

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A new method of solving quartic and higher degree diophantine equations

Ajai Choudhry

arxiv:1702.08136 v1 · 2017-02-27 · math.NT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{G4EE7LGSTBUGJA3VCQDUKTJ4CT}

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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	2026-05-18T00:49:55.878003Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

37084facd298686483751407454d3c14e2f0bf79bb29a40416c13302e425398b

Aliases

arxiv: 1702.08136 · arxiv_version: 1702.08136v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1702.08136 · pith_short_12: G4EE7LGSTBUG · pith_short_16: G4EE7LGSTBUGJA3V · pith_short_8: G4EE7LGS

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/G4EE7LGSTBUGJA3VCQDUKTJ4CT \
  | 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: 37084facd298686483751407454d3c14e2f0bf79bb29a40416c13302e425398b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "57897c4bcd64f12b264dad5f918263d02df108d7bd11ce6b1cc8a0cbccbefe9b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.NT",
    "submitted_at": "2017-02-27T04:02:13Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "97debf700c9028781458b7d0785866978baad651731a482ade6af8e2af7e5f99"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1702.08136",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}