Pith Number

pith:JJTJKJQY

pith:2017:JJTJKJQY77OO5D5NFUCKDYPG6R

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Comets, historical records and vedic literature

Patrick Das Gupta

arxiv:1704.00722 v2 · 2017-04-01 · physics.hist-ph · physics.pop-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{JJTJKJQY77OO5D5NFUCKDYPG6R}

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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	2026-05-17T23:55:01.252470Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4a66952618ffdcee8fad2d04a1e1e6f45d221ba025a250a9681dc8500dade891

Aliases

arxiv: 1704.00722 · arxiv_version: 1704.00722v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1704.00722 · pith_short_12: JJTJKJQY77OO · pith_short_16: JJTJKJQY77OO5D5N · pith_short_8: JJTJKJQY

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/JJTJKJQY77OO5D5NFUCKDYPG6R \
  | 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: 4a66952618ffdcee8fad2d04a1e1e6f45d221ba025a250a9681dc8500dade891

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "afa614ef6cb38b8c33a16e8580b076035ede073e135666394ec4762d7b7a8482",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.pop-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.hist-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-04-01T14:08:04Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8517f26ee9e29b56c28c2c9bb532f4c1d08933d0fef492f211c8cb7df021ee77"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1704.00722",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}