Pith Number

pith:MICH7H44

pith:2014:MICH7H44SQPNNHDIGUDFYUJ4PC

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Fault-Tolerant, but Paradoxical Path-Finding in Physical and Conceptual Systems

Bryan Knowles, Mustafa Atici

arxiv:1406.2234 v1 · 2014-06-09 · cs.SE · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MICH7H44SQPNNHDIGUDFYUJ4PC}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-18T02:50:11.201146Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

62047f9f9c941ed69c6835065c513c78a6c2f3824063f38006dcb1bb8535db58

Aliases

arxiv: 1406.2234 · arxiv_version: 1406.2234v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1406.2234 · pith_short_12: MICH7H44SQPN · pith_short_16: MICH7H44SQPNNHDI · pith_short_8: MICH7H44

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/MICH7H44SQPNNHDIGUDFYUJ4PC \
  | 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: 62047f9f9c941ed69c6835065c513c78a6c2f3824063f38006dcb1bb8535db58

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3aef6e8246dd644e938144b184a4ef64625ddae3666db00c07a2a04a656cfacf",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2014-06-09T16:14:04Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d35b53e69c4c9ffea571b574c43ecfefb4ad304920b1a43a4a65d319bebd1bdb"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1406.2234",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}