Pith Number

pith:M7UEVBMZ

pith:2016:M7UEVBMZFMUESKUGV77ZKLJQ36

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Identifying Excessively Rounded or Truncated Data

J. Patrick Castle, Kevin H. Knuth, Kevin R. Wheeler

arxiv:1602.04292 v1 · 2016-02-13 · physics.data-an

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{M7UEVBMZFMUESKUGV77ZKLJQ36}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-05-18T01:20:51.300843Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

67e84a85992b28492a86afff952d30dfbc3036794b90b6afe16dfc2a2bb37b9c

Aliases

arxiv: 1602.04292 · arxiv_version: 1602.04292v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1602.04292 · pith_short_12: M7UEVBMZFMUE · pith_short_16: M7UEVBMZFMUESKUG · pith_short_8: M7UEVBMZ

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/M7UEVBMZFMUESKUGV77ZKLJQ36 \
  | 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: 67e84a85992b28492a86afff952d30dfbc3036794b90b6afe16dfc2a2bb37b9c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4af8c74c2b6e9341f5c37250190ce35f79969e76b2f16e8a065aca54ef47f1d6",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.data-an",
    "submitted_at": "2016-02-13T06:41:05Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d1c589d88759977481968629de3532ac3bc15b583418038ec01b11c62809837e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1602.04292",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}