Pith Number

pith:MHXH43GT

pith:2006:MHXH43GTJN3POKNJ7DVW4274JD

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A Slow-Growing Sequence Defined by an Unusual Recurrence

Allan R. Wilks, Dion C. Gijswijt, Fokko J. van de Bult, John P. Linderman, N. J. A. Sloane

arxiv:math/0602498 v1 · 2006-02-22 · math.NT · math.CO

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\pithnumber{MHXH43GTJN3POKNJ7DVW4274JD}

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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	2026-05-18T02:42:39.986753Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

61ee7e6cd34b76f729a9f8eb6e6bfc48f4184e0945408ba087e8e89150340b8b

Aliases

arxiv: math/0602498 · arxiv_version: math/0602498v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.math/0602498 · pith_short_12: MHXH43GTJN3P · pith_short_16: MHXH43GTJN3POKNJ · pith_short_8: MHXH43GT

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/MHXH43GTJN3POKNJ7DVW4274JD \
  | 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: 61ee7e6cd34b76f729a9f8eb6e6bfc48f4184e0945408ba087e8e89150340b8b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "57a8c7919349feda857e53b2a3ee161dbc3efc1a5d8963047568f223e11004a1",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.CO"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "math.NT",
    "submitted_at": "2006-02-22T14:01:22Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "def9710c214e9986eb31354f553f1f20b44a1fb65cd7c313ff7ad3b33e70859d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "math/0602498",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}