Pith Number

pith:HDUS7RTV

pith:2016:HDUS7RTVA2QRNPQJVISJSNSHA2

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Too good to be true: when overwhelming evidence fails to convince

Andrew Allison, Bruce Davis, Derek Abbott, Fran\c{c}ois Chapeau-Blondeau, Lachlan J. Gunn, Mark McDonnell

arxiv:1601.00900 v1 · 2016-01-05 · stat.AP

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{HDUS7RTVA2QRNPQJVISJSNSHA2}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T01:16:14.894147Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

38e92fc67506a116be09aa24993647069946a23cc896b171f886ba833c4f690d

Aliases

arxiv: 1601.00900 · arxiv_version: 1601.00900v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1601.00900 · pith_short_12: HDUS7RTVA2QR · pith_short_16: HDUS7RTVA2QRNPQJ · pith_short_8: HDUS7RTV

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/HDUS7RTVA2QRNPQJVISJSNSHA2 \
  | 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: 38e92fc67506a116be09aa24993647069946a23cc896b171f886ba833c4f690d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "425323e1f5b34067f6daf436d16220459adf67dadb0bbc2e60e47203b491fa19",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.AP",
    "submitted_at": "2016-01-05T16:44:38Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e89c40e5da129fddb779ec73e171bb83f202e598319f19f3f221b4a5a770cb1a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1601.00900",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}