Pith Number

pith:JTJDQQSB

pith:2000:JTJDQQSBZETH4ZMDVP3ZZL7KNE

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Fractionally-addressed delay lines

Davide Rocchesso

arxiv:cs/0005022 v2 · 2000-05-17 · cs.SD

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{JTJDQQSBZETH4ZMDVP3ZZL7KNE}

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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	2026-05-18T00:58:26.971590Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4cd2384241c9267e6583abf79cafea693ce05f900a8a623668ebad13b3ed3d7c

Aliases

arxiv: cs/0005022 · arxiv_version: cs/0005022v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.cs/0005022 · pith_short_12: JTJDQQSBZETH · pith_short_16: JTJDQQSBZETH4ZMD · pith_short_8: JTJDQQSB

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/JTJDQQSBZETH4ZMDVP3ZZL7KNE \
  | 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: 4cd2384241c9267e6583abf79cafea693ce05f900a8a623668ebad13b3ed3d7c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "85795a0497a680bac2766c808df231e96e6733eef02fa80396c1c31d3573aeb5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SD",
    "submitted_at": "2000-05-17T14:30:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ba291c85747691d6be24d1e5b4019eefe774de04d2f299d6f611f12068f2a704"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "cs/0005022",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}