Pith Number

pith:MDYIVFDL

pith:2016:MDYIVFDLHRBKW5MIVZLAEMCAVV

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The Oxford Olympics Study 2016: Cost and Cost Overrun at the Games

Alexander Budzier, Allison Stewart, Bent Flyvbjerg

arxiv:1607.04484 v1 · 2016-07-14 · q-fin.EC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MDYIVFDLHRBKW5MIVZLAEMCAVV}

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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	2026-05-18T01:11:01.073215Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

60f08a946b3c42ab7588ae56023040ad5f97cb0b2c7d1bd9919d8711b2a14533

Aliases

arxiv: 1607.04484 · arxiv_version: 1607.04484v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1607.04484 · pith_short_12: MDYIVFDLHRBK · pith_short_16: MDYIVFDLHRBKW5MI · pith_short_8: MDYIVFDL

Agent API

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/MDYIVFDLHRBKW5MIVZLAEMCAVV \
  | 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: 60f08a946b3c42ab7588ae56023040ad5f97cb0b2c7d1bd9919d8711b2a14533

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "409f9eeda19c80e054a7a3ab22271a9dc7a4b23ed41fb5ec532e45eeef63362f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-fin.EC",
    "submitted_at": "2016-07-14T12:17:10Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "06710ca2bf6ed41ed41adc0acd7181c60ff19ea788d8f5fa7629335f67910d5b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1607.04484",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}