Pith Number

pith:L6CLVLWH

pith:2017:L6CLVLWHNCST3LY77B22C3CGQH

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

How far is Facebook from me? Facebook network infrastructure analysis

Angel Cuevas, Antonio M. Ortiz, Noel Crespi, Reza Farahbakhsh, Xiao Han

arxiv:1705.00717 v1 · 2017-05-01 · cs.NI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{L6CLVLWHNCST3LY77B22C3CGQH}

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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	2026-05-18T00:45:10.041487Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5f84baaec768a53daf1ff875a16c4681da578bb1d1e7e130058f45b4585d5916

Aliases

arxiv: 1705.00717 · arxiv_version: 1705.00717v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1705.00717 · pith_short_12: L6CLVLWHNCST · pith_short_16: L6CLVLWHNCST3LY7 · pith_short_8: L6CLVLWH

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/L6CLVLWHNCST3LY77B22C3CGQH \
  | 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: 5f84baaec768a53daf1ff875a16c4681da578bb1d1e7e130058f45b4585d5916

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "565549f1df0feba309c5d1cd087acfad534b83f56d0b9d54baa3ca4511194dc3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.NI",
    "submitted_at": "2017-05-01T21:15:15Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4ccc67befbfafb14c0773495983b9c735c505c1725d80566c6f87c66c0a31140"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1705.00717",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}