Pith Number

pith:JQGDNAFV

pith:2018:JQGDNAFVQJIEHJNVI5AA2KC2EG

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The Indus Script and Economics. A Role for Indus Seals and Tablets in Rationing and Administration of Labor

Rajesh P. N. Rao

arxiv:1812.00049 v1 · 2018-11-28 · cs.CL · cs.CY · cs.SI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{JQGDNAFVQJIEHJNVI5AA2KC2EG}

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4 Citations open

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-17T23:59:27.457256Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4c0c3680b5825043a5b547400d285a21bf790f32a572fa57049f9608f206f828

Aliases

arxiv: 1812.00049 · arxiv_version: 1812.00049v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1812.00049 · pith_short_12: JQGDNAFVQJIE · pith_short_16: JQGDNAFVQJIEHJNV · pith_short_8: JQGDNAFV

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/JQGDNAFVQJIEHJNVI5AA2KC2EG \
  | 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: 4c0c3680b5825043a5b547400d285a21bf790f32a572fa57049f9608f206f828

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c8f8ebc72e4c290408b6855c2bc4e90198abb5d541a398b968386ffcfcf06510",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CY",
      "cs.SI"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2018-11-28T23:34:06Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0c8ba1ad4485a891fc5caf7b5e017bd41393d311c8f81c07acc4fd41db597456"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1812.00049",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}