Pith Number

pith:JRTXNSPI

pith:2015:JRTXNSPIGV3GWKQS4Y3WBRAQDZ

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A graph interpretation of the least squares ranking method

L\'aszl\'o Csat\'o

arxiv:1508.06778 v1 · 2015-08-27 · cs.GT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{JRTXNSPIGV3GWKQS4Y3WBRAQDZ}

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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	2026-05-17T23:42:59.359194Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4c6776c9e835766b2a12e63760c4101e459bc37047161fdd71e6aa95c3898442

Aliases

arxiv: 1508.06778 · arxiv_version: 1508.06778v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1508.06778 · pith_short_12: JRTXNSPIGV3G · pith_short_16: JRTXNSPIGV3GWKQS · pith_short_8: JRTXNSPI

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/JRTXNSPIGV3GWKQS4Y3WBRAQDZ \
  | 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: 4c6776c9e835766b2a12e63760c4101e459bc37047161fdd71e6aa95c3898442

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ee35961129160eeb766681e5db81d2791eebae02e7a944f50a5ae0c446d17128",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.GT",
    "submitted_at": "2015-08-27T09:42:42Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "623a5bbc255a059c23bd0d0655dd1666a718f1f4a7f6b968cb441e5e1ed24a51"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1508.06778",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}