Pith Number

pith:GOVGTUQW

pith:2014:GOVGTUQWQ6CUYH3EDYRYWAZHBE

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Towards designing artificial universes for artificial agents under interaction closure

Christoph Salge, Daniel Polani, Martin Biehl

arxiv:1406.1502 v1 · 2014-06-05 · cs.MA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{GOVGTUQWQ6CUYH3EDYRYWAZHBE}

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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	2026-05-18T01:14:36.285172Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

33aa69d21687854c1f641e238b03270937a2b452ba3ee77c590d179d84f1b42b

Aliases

arxiv: 1406.1502 · arxiv_version: 1406.1502v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1406.1502 · pith_short_12: GOVGTUQWQ6CU · pith_short_16: GOVGTUQWQ6CUYH3E · pith_short_8: GOVGTUQW

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/GOVGTUQWQ6CUYH3EDYRYWAZHBE \
  | 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: 33aa69d21687854c1f641e238b03270937a2b452ba3ee77c590d179d84f1b42b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "098cff26e74f1b39eb63afa02c56e355173f4eadba3135f648ba2caeb732ee29",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.MA",
    "submitted_at": "2014-06-05T16:27:15Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "627b4b6f0c1a112eb1d4df40bae136137c779bbd09bbe00a9bec331f55ee13b9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1406.1502",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}