Pith Number

pith:KJPCWA62

pith:2010:KJPCWA62LW3HMJQQMUEZVIY337

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Nefarious Numbers

Douglas N. Arnold, Kristine K. Fowler

arxiv:1010.0278 v4 · 2010-10-01 · math.HO · cs.DL

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KJPCWA62LW3HMJQQMUEZVIY337}

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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	2026-05-18T03:00:59.682992Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

525e2b03da5db676261065099aa31bdff7203a9b5b920e1f2b5010b02a27000c

Aliases

arxiv: 1010.0278 · arxiv_version: 1010.0278v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1010.0278 · pith_short_12: KJPCWA62LW3H · pith_short_16: KJPCWA62LW3HMJQQ · pith_short_8: KJPCWA62

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/KJPCWA62LW3HMJQQMUEZVIY337 \
  | 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: 525e2b03da5db676261065099aa31bdff7203a9b5b920e1f2b5010b02a27000c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1fa76f884d29abad180270130f789f67b605f18a50069f43d1143d6f59f765ae",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DL"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.HO",
    "submitted_at": "2010-10-01T23:44:12Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a55c1fc34d245180823699a8869f297de3f59b4ee892375715f98742d6d9fee9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1010.0278",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}