Pith Number

pith:MNQPZTNW

pith:2017:MNQPZTNWA7WAPDAKHM2B46TVES

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arxiv:1703.03897 v1 · 2017-03-11 · cs.SE

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MNQPZTNWA7WAPDAKHM2B46TVES}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-18T00:48:52.835641Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6360fccdb607ec078c0a3b341e7a752480a713968ca99fcda336727fa9b9c628

Aliases

arxiv: 1703.03897 · arxiv_version: 1703.03897v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1703.03897 · pith_short_12: MNQPZTNWA7WA · pith_short_16: MNQPZTNWA7WAPDAK · pith_short_8: MNQPZTNW

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/MNQPZTNWA7WAPDAKHM2B46TVES \
  | 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: 6360fccdb607ec078c0a3b341e7a752480a713968ca99fcda336727fa9b9c628

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e8b7bd639265e8d40e4f03c97e65a30546fa2eebf61786120ba7497fc9b27260",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2017-03-11T02:41:31Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "aeef81c05214cc31f281613dceeaf8d2718e6042179024f5e8705f0430e82608"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1703.03897",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}