Pith Number

pith:IHD3WR5J

pith:2013:IHD3WR5JHDUSGPESMCGO5BEWK4

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Probabilistic consensus via polling and majority rules

Ayalvadi Ganesh, James Cruise

arxiv:1311.4805 v1 · 2013-11-19 · math.PR · cs.DC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{IHD3WR5JHDUSGPESMCGO5BEWK4}

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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	2026-05-18T03:06:43.437667Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

41c7bb47a938e9233c92608cee8496573f80fadaedb3aa88d99019258eb4712d

Aliases

arxiv: 1311.4805 · arxiv_version: 1311.4805v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1311.4805 · pith_short_12: IHD3WR5JHDUS · pith_short_16: IHD3WR5JHDUSGPES · pith_short_8: IHD3WR5J

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/IHD3WR5JHDUSGPESMCGO5BEWK4 \
  | 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: 41c7bb47a938e9233c92608cee8496573f80fadaedb3aa88d99019258eb4712d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "93328e27fcc56972a5bc8395f8f00d70af0009e8ded70586cd5441d04fc156f4",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DC"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.PR",
    "submitted_at": "2013-11-19T17:04:32Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7222e1ee3c2510c6f08d2643de86138ca469acc7a159f6b0f0e075a326ea1f80"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1311.4805",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}