Pith Number

pith:LFFIKU3K

pith:2016:LFFIKU3KQW4BZCCCLDGFZPQA6Q

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Induction and Analogy in a Problem of Finite Sums

Ryan Zielinski

arxiv:1608.04006 v2 · 2016-08-13 · math.GM

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{LFFIKU3KQW4BZCCCLDGFZPQA6Q}

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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	2026-05-17T23:56:34.638613Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

594a85536a85b81c884258cc5cbe00f4061a34e14187a11048fd5aadbbb35d84

Aliases

arxiv: 1608.04006 · arxiv_version: 1608.04006v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1608.04006 · pith_short_12: LFFIKU3KQW4B · pith_short_16: LFFIKU3KQW4BZCCC · pith_short_8: LFFIKU3K

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/LFFIKU3KQW4BZCCCLDGFZPQA6Q \
  | 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: 594a85536a85b81c884258cc5cbe00f4061a34e14187a11048fd5aadbbb35d84

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a5772fff4e37e4d733feceb6251f78f4bf47b24169615a500a0054d1bd97ae67",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.GM",
    "submitted_at": "2016-08-13T16:45:39Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3bbefbedefd481a2a7103424353e6696f5a28a815296348877d0a01898a6cd2e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1608.04006",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}