Pith Number

pith:G5A7KLYS

pith:2014:G5A7KLYSEKQBF7QLJ2FS3HHZOE

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Big Data Dimensional Analysis

Jeremy Kepner, Vijay Gadepally

arxiv:1408.0517 v1 · 2014-08-03 · cs.DB · cs.DC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{G5A7KLYSEKQBF7QLJ2FS3HHZOE}

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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	2026-05-18T01:10:18.623927Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3741f52f1222a012fe0b4e8b2d9cf9713576bf242bb15c6e63a456861dd525a5

Aliases

arxiv: 1408.0517 · arxiv_version: 1408.0517v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1408.0517 · pith_short_12: G5A7KLYSEKQB · pith_short_16: G5A7KLYSEKQBF7QL · pith_short_8: G5A7KLYS

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/G5A7KLYSEKQBF7QLJ2FS3HHZOE \
  | 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: 3741f52f1222a012fe0b4e8b2d9cf9713576bf242bb15c6e63a456861dd525a5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3bc772dfb8d69a6be7c0cd666b457611b38d8d2475379da7bf65292d08571479",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DC"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DB",
    "submitted_at": "2014-08-03T17:22:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e06ebacb4b3c70575b42cc930f2d2ea7e497632ea698426d7fbab1aab0a34bf5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1408.0517",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}