Pith Number

pith:H6HHGBOX

pith:2023:H6HHGBOXVU56RN33SDPMXVB5GH

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

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Judy Kay, Micah Goldwater, Waheeb Yaqub

arxiv:2309.00912 v1 · 2023-09-02 · cs.HC

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{H6HHGBOXVU56RN33SDPMXVB5GH}

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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	2026-07-05T06:47:29.501350Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3f8e7305d7ad3be8b77b90decbd43d31d2bdb2fca38050d71d9201b48a012ccb

Aliases

arxiv: 2309.00912 · arxiv_version: 2309.00912v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2309.00912 · pith_short_12: H6HHGBOXVU56 · pith_short_16: H6HHGBOXVU56RN33 · pith_short_8: H6HHGBOX

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/H6HHGBOXVU56RN33SDPMXVB5GH \
  | 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: 3f8e7305d7ad3be8b77b90decbd43d31d2bdb2fca38050d71d9201b48a012ccb

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "489f2adf00d27122075e7d27e207d920bd38103f5501228bb024af59eecd24c6",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.HC",
    "submitted_at": "2023-09-02T11:23:16Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "701f8a41900a0935891370bc391641616b7c8c509e4bee10259a909f7b50e6b1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2309.00912",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}