Pith Number

pith:HSLGWZOJ

pith:2014:HSLGWZOJ57IF357OPUIPZ2L5SM

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

When Ignorance is Bliss

Joseph Y. Halpern, Peter D. Grunwald

arxiv:1407.7188 v1 · 2014-07-27 · cs.AI

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{HSLGWZOJ57IF357OPUIPZ2L5SM}

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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	2026-05-18T02:46:23.690128Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3c966b65c9efd05df7ee7d10fce97d93278466deb5682027702165375b1c2540

Aliases

arxiv: 1407.7188 · arxiv_version: 1407.7188v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1407.7188 · pith_short_12: HSLGWZOJ57IF · pith_short_16: HSLGWZOJ57IF357O · pith_short_8: HSLGWZOJ

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/HSLGWZOJ57IF357OPUIPZ2L5SM \
  | 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: 3c966b65c9efd05df7ee7d10fce97d93278466deb5682027702165375b1c2540

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "44f46c44e9594035bca24bf0cc64d5e7761c7388de42d636dc308a2633bb563b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2014-07-27T05:34:39Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4c17b3290f7f0ac932ea0f7c5466a61092dc1d850ba4c4810fe61fd1872765f1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1407.7188",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}