Pith Number

pith:J75RBRHJ

pith:2016:J75RBRHJ4CFTJWAZX4MHROPZGI

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Public Computation & Boundary Play

Marie-Claire Shanahan, Pratim Sengupta

arxiv:1610.06658 v1 · 2016-10-21 · physics.ed-ph

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{J75RBRHJ4CFTJWAZX4MHROPZGI}

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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	2026-05-18T01:01:37.088420Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4ffb10c4e9e08b34d819bf1878b9f932019dd5fc2f2a9165254374373a91b6ea

Aliases

arxiv: 1610.06658 · arxiv_version: 1610.06658v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1610.06658 · pith_short_12: J75RBRHJ4CFT · pith_short_16: J75RBRHJ4CFTJWAZ · pith_short_8: J75RBRHJ

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/J75RBRHJ4CFTJWAZX4MHROPZGI \
  | 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: 4ffb10c4e9e08b34d819bf1878b9f932019dd5fc2f2a9165254374373a91b6ea

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0a927884fc6133bc5236ceae018321b684a00b0b249d787225d389a020238f0c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.ed-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2016-10-21T03:25:10Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a005f78ed8b21ae654a187cfc8bc56d11bccc6c5fbb05aba150398308ef28642"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1610.06658",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}