Pith Number

pith:H43HCD5Y

pith:2010:H43HCD5YFUY64KBHFK5OWFXJH2

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How to Add a Noninteger Number of Terms: From Axioms to New Identities

Dierk Schleicher, Markus Mueller

arxiv:1001.4695 v2 · 2010-01-26 · math.CA

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{H43HCD5YFUY64KBHFK5OWFXJH2}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T04:27:36.212276Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3f36710fb82d31ee28272abaeb16e93e93055e66a6e71703c0da90d1866541d5

Aliases

arxiv: 1001.4695 · arxiv_version: 1001.4695v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1001.4695 · pith_short_12: H43HCD5YFUY6 · pith_short_16: H43HCD5YFUY64KBH · pith_short_8: H43HCD5Y

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/H43HCD5YFUY64KBHFK5OWFXJH2 \
  | 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: 3f36710fb82d31ee28272abaeb16e93e93055e66a6e71703c0da90d1866541d5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2c930343c429ea86a366100b2d83a1db30adc89d5c6e672dcb3f40ebbb9a30c5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.CA",
    "submitted_at": "2010-01-26T14:20:38Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6c37e88813b255c1e052da1b6b5bf4b445c602697e45d72d6fa127c74c5c7024"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1001.4695",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}