Pith Number

pith:GPU22I74

pith:2019:GPU22I74ZQGCS2CQ7IDWHDVZCI

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The Argument against Quantum Computers

Gil Kalai

arxiv:1908.02499 v1 · 2019-08-07 · quant-ph · cs.CC · math-ph · math.MP

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{GPU22I74ZQGCS2CQ7IDWHDVZCI}

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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	2026-07-05T01:26:38.712015Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

33e9ad23fccc0c296850fa07638eb9121ca7b56e603b5b0ba1cc42488c460af0

Aliases

arxiv: 1908.02499 · arxiv_version: 1908.02499v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1908.02499 · pith_short_12: GPU22I74ZQGC · pith_short_16: GPU22I74ZQGCS2CQ · pith_short_8: GPU22I74

Agent API

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/GPU22I74ZQGCS2CQ7IDWHDVZCI \
  | 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: 33e9ad23fccc0c296850fa07638eb9121ca7b56e603b5b0ba1cc42488c460af0

Canonical record JSON

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    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CC",
      "math-ph",
      "math.MP"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2019-08-07T09:37:55Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a13664e8254a441d759b39b52d50834551ca55042c0aed94a408613997e97bdd"
  },
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  "source": {
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    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}