Pith Number

pith:HSVO7REL

pith:2026:HSVO7RELISZ5UHRO46BMEDZPBC

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Can AI be Easy? Lessons Learned from the EZR.py Toolkit

Srinath Srinivasan, Tim Menzies

arxiv:2606.03640 v1 · 2026-05-28 · cs.SE

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{HSVO7RELISZ5UHRO46BMEDZPBC}

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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	2026-06-03T01:06:03.160775Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3caaefc48b44b3da1e2ee782c20f2f08ab0d4a210a56b656423d6cbe1482f465

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.03640 · arxiv_version: 2606.03640v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.03640 · pith_short_12: HSVO7RELISZ5 · pith_short_16: HSVO7RELISZ5UHRO · pith_short_8: HSVO7REL

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/HSVO7RELISZ5UHRO46BMEDZPBC \
  | 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: 3caaefc48b44b3da1e2ee782c20f2f08ab0d4a210a56b656423d6cbe1482f465

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "038979267bb445c5682c9de80a3848d0db7e605447fc8bc7395b4c0e3363a249",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-28T21:06:48Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "da8b59c8f5b641c4b6e8c64741bcbd3e852178aaded84f24d5eb422a29099e4b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.03640",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}