Pith Number

pith:KZTWC3GF

pith:2014:KZTWC3GFU65KENBEGWKGUNZKIT

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Zen of Graduate-level Programming

Zubair Nabi

arxiv:1405.2489 v1 · 2014-05-11 · cs.CY

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KZTWC3GFU65KENBEGWKGUNZKIT}

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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	2026-05-18T02:52:05.408926Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5667616cc5a7baa2342435946a372a44c2066ac7288fa5757424f87e263738b9

Aliases

arxiv: 1405.2489 · arxiv_version: 1405.2489v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1405.2489 · pith_short_12: KZTWC3GFU65K · pith_short_16: KZTWC3GFU65KENBE · pith_short_8: KZTWC3GF

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/KZTWC3GFU65KENBEGWKGUNZKIT \
  | 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: 5667616cc5a7baa2342435946a372a44c2066ac7288fa5757424f87e263738b9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "621a8261dbfe592a0df9917ba13c61115d7134a79c36c12fde654d3f0ed0cfca",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CY",
    "submitted_at": "2014-05-11T02:06:22Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "77337218de02d92551f61f0d114726da3f4ae1055593a2bbdfce55070dea1d1c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1405.2489",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}