Pith Number

pith:I4RT4DKU

pith:2016:I4RT4DKULWXYXPVV2WQCV5OMGH

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Tail Index for a Distributed Storage System with Pareto File Size Distribution

Tian Lan, Vaneet Aggarwal

arxiv:1607.06044 v2 · 2016-07-20 · cs.IT · cs.DC · cs.NI · math.IT

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{I4RT4DKULWXYXPVV2WQCV5OMGH}

Prints a linked badge after your title and injects PDF metadata. Compiles on arXiv. Learn more · Embed verified badge

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	2026-05-18T00:38:42.210221Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

47233e0d545daf8bbeb5d5a02af5cc31fb640df639985a684af16657b1b602e4

Aliases

arxiv: 1607.06044 · arxiv_version: 1607.06044v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1607.06044 · pith_short_12: I4RT4DKULWXY · pith_short_16: I4RT4DKULWXYXPVV · pith_short_8: I4RT4DKU

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/I4RT4DKULWXYXPVV2WQCV5OMGH \
  | 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: 47233e0d545daf8bbeb5d5a02af5cc31fb640df639985a684af16657b1b602e4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2764034d9268b3626da4a10098cd563dc281f1c8b9996470796b91f87836fa35",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DC",
      "cs.NI",
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2016-07-20T17:51:16Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "be8ed7c412b50ec15c700756361dbc847aa91bba5e5606f74b38890b0e2642aa"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1607.06044",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}