Pith Number

pith:HWL6L4ML

pith:2016:HWL6L4ML3TPNVK57CFPG3SG4QH

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Will My Tests Tell Me If I Break This Code?

Elmar Juergens, Rainer Niedermayr, Stefan Wagner

arxiv:1611.07163 v1 · 2016-11-22 · 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{HWL6L4ML3TPNVK57CFPG3SG4QH}

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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	2026-05-18T00:57:24.763256Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3d97e5f18bdcdedaabbf115e6dc8dc81fbd60a362b987af174e5e8dc3e0b13b1

Aliases

arxiv: 1611.07163 · arxiv_version: 1611.07163v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1611.07163 · pith_short_12: HWL6L4ML3TPN · pith_short_16: HWL6L4ML3TPNVK57 · pith_short_8: HWL6L4ML

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/HWL6L4ML3TPNVK57CFPG3SG4QH \
  | 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: 3d97e5f18bdcdedaabbf115e6dc8dc81fbd60a362b987af174e5e8dc3e0b13b1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5aba04c58738f024e4c230596cf9c1e002e09f8ba9e83eec436fc56115baecc3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2016-11-22T06:44:39Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "cf091825b43f8aab7f9da5bc05ee05c9accbc310f6772b665f653cdc1e65bb6f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1611.07163",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}