Pith Number

pith:JBEI7VOA

pith:2016:JBEI7VOADUWTLKQ4EICPMBOQOK

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Forecasting the Flu: Designing Social Network Sensors for Epidemics

Anil Vullikanti, B. Aditya Prakash, Hao Wu, Huijuan Shao, K.S.M. Tozammel Hossain, Madhav Marathe, Maleq Khan, Naren Ramakrishnan

arxiv:1602.06866 v3 · 2016-02-22 · cs.SI · physics.soc-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{JBEI7VOADUWTLKQ4EICPMBOQOK}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:19:24.094968Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

48488fd5c01d2d35aa1c2204f605d07284233c0545b07dfbf4b034bf2dc7ab87

Aliases

arxiv: 1602.06866 · arxiv_version: 1602.06866v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1602.06866 · pith_short_12: JBEI7VOADUWT · pith_short_16: JBEI7VOADUWTLKQ4 · pith_short_8: JBEI7VOA

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/JBEI7VOADUWTLKQ4EICPMBOQOK \
  | 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: 48488fd5c01d2d35aa1c2204f605d07284233c0545b07dfbf4b034bf2dc7ab87

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2ae2d63c2bcd3a91cb2664495cc0639506d5cf1db9f9d8d93b084d2a030f78df",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.soc-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SI",
    "submitted_at": "2016-02-22T17:32:31Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f439d78f5c8c3804714a0854759da6a5fc1ca2da71a9f11b532df1a7540435fa"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1602.06866",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}