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pith:LAA3LKJ6

pith:1995:LAA3LKJ6VJONV6L3OC3G3O25GQ

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CAM-8: A Computer Architecture Based on Cellular Automata

Norman Margolus (MIT)

arxiv:comp-gas/9509001 v1 · 1995-09-04 · comp-gas · nlin.CG

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Differentiable Logic Cellular Automata: From Game of Life to Pattern Generation

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:42:55.692854Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5801b5a93eaa5cdaf97b70b66dbb5d342a9a77475472dc32141ac915cfc37210

Aliases

arxiv: comp-gas/9509001 · arxiv_version: comp-gas/9509001v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.comp-gas/9509001 · pith_short_12: LAA3LKJ6VJON · pith_short_16: LAA3LKJ6VJONV6L3 · pith_short_8: LAA3LKJ6

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/LAA3LKJ6VJONV6L3OC3G3O25GQ \
  | 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: 5801b5a93eaa5cdaf97b70b66dbb5d342a9a77475472dc32141ac915cfc37210

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8f1084c26ae2f044c16db057075325ba0340b8c8d431ff91a8d93d1863d78b66",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "nlin.CG"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "comp-gas",
    "submitted_at": "1995-09-04T06:44:56Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "77cc7321d80b5fda653ef19fe8faad548cba4cc5182b8349e36a323bec598d21"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "comp-gas/9509001",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}