Pith Number

pith:J2YLVGY3

pith:2013:J2YLVGY3MQZULXOVGETJ3YTLAC

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Recomputation Manifesto

Ian P. Gent

arxiv:1304.3674 v1 · 2013-04-12 · cs.GL · cs.DL

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{J2YLVGY3MQZULXOVGETJ3YTLAC}

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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	2026-05-18T03:28:06.859272Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4eb0ba9b1b643345ddd531269de26b009ff11caf0458a46c507ba8905fcb310e

Aliases

arxiv: 1304.3674 · arxiv_version: 1304.3674v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1304.3674 · pith_short_12: J2YLVGY3MQZU · pith_short_16: J2YLVGY3MQZULXOV · pith_short_8: J2YLVGY3

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/J2YLVGY3MQZULXOVGETJ3YTLAC \
  | 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: 4eb0ba9b1b643345ddd531269de26b009ff11caf0458a46c507ba8905fcb310e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "bed24245d17d3720fd471f5477c25f44b408714705a776493132c1d991fd01ff",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DL"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.GL",
    "submitted_at": "2013-04-12T16:29:42Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f5b1368228b9acc9ac64bbc5a6fe16ca968ff61a188bd68b51f6e78e0cfe174d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1304.3674",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}