Pith Number

pith:H2UE44LM

pith:2018:H2UE44LMNG4A64MCKQLOMTLMAE

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

An Exploration of Verbatim Content Republishing by News Producers

Benjamin D. Horne, Sibel Adali

arxiv:1805.05939 v1 · 2018-05-15 · cs.CY

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{H2UE44LMNG4A64MCKQLOMTLMAE}

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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	2026-05-18T00:15:53.183636Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3ea84e716c69b80f71825416e64d6c0108737a1a02041766fa50b0555c0ce83b

Aliases

arxiv: 1805.05939 · arxiv_version: 1805.05939v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1805.05939 · pith_short_12: H2UE44LMNG4A · pith_short_16: H2UE44LMNG4A64MC · pith_short_8: H2UE44LM

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/H2UE44LMNG4A64MCKQLOMTLMAE \
  | 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: 3ea84e716c69b80f71825416e64d6c0108737a1a02041766fa50b0555c0ce83b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4098821eea3ad3a58480fd2585a15c9c6d81960ef63ad059449eabbf2bdd6e3a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CY",
    "submitted_at": "2018-05-15T17:56:11Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4bf234c5168e6f6e8b757414339ea7a9edc24bde5641e802708778280cc47fca"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1805.05939",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}