Pith Number

pith:GASAG7SL

pith:2015:GASAG7SLILBFNFNSV6JJK6554N

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Vectorized VByte Decoding

Daniel Lemire, Jeff Plaisance, Nathan Kurz

arxiv:1503.07387 v4 · 2015-02-20 · cs.IR

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{GASAG7SLILBFNFNSV6JJK6554N}

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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	2026-05-18T00:52:53.318917Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3024037e4b42c25695b2af92957bbde365b99a6b6b6edac4e54dc477c2520f79

Aliases

arxiv: 1503.07387 · arxiv_version: 1503.07387v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1503.07387 · pith_short_12: GASAG7SLILBF · pith_short_16: GASAG7SLILBFNFNS · pith_short_8: GASAG7SL

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/GASAG7SLILBFNFNSV6JJK6554N \
  | 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: 3024037e4b42c25695b2af92957bbde365b99a6b6b6edac4e54dc477c2520f79

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "26035a9f05170953f6dc11a84110242c31a3c8d3371891cfb9c7399851102ec5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IR",
    "submitted_at": "2015-02-20T14:52:06Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "938c0325d7975f5e36a9bcfab10f5ca61ee84bbc712b77e05b94467bfd96c611"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1503.07387",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}