Pith Number

pith:JB22WONE

pith:2015:JB22WONEGDH5YGZSDL7SNTWG6G

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Computational Power of Beeps

Calvin Newport, Seth Gilbert

arxiv:1508.03859 v1 · 2015-08-16 · cs.DC · cs.DS

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{JB22WONEGDH5YGZSDL7SNTWG6G}

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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	2026-05-18T01:35:15.028171Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4875ab39a430cfdc1b321aff26cec6f1b8587f2170ebb184dd57ba29b3c017a4

Aliases

arxiv: 1508.03859 · arxiv_version: 1508.03859v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1508.03859 · pith_short_12: JB22WONEGDH5 · pith_short_16: JB22WONEGDH5YGZS · pith_short_8: JB22WONE

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/JB22WONEGDH5YGZSDL7SNTWG6G \
  | 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: 4875ab39a430cfdc1b321aff26cec6f1b8587f2170ebb184dd57ba29b3c017a4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "efa3bde9d0ceb989791de8081210b9f9f00ea4a822188015e98709016173b6b5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DS"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2015-08-16T19:58:37Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "17ae5ab3f4c9787f6279c4c832d31987f5844de353d8559367aa36444fc1e728"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1508.03859",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}