Pith Number

pith:MTSCDRFS

pith:2016:MTSCDRFSDCG6PI6NDFSQWPB4W4

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Approximate Hamming distance in a stream

Raphael Clifford, Tatiana Starikovskaya

arxiv:1602.07241 v1 · 2016-02-23 · cs.DS

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MTSCDRFSDCG6PI6NDFSQWPB4W4}

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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	2026-05-18T01:20:06.863259Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

64e421c4b2188de7a3cd19650b3c3cb733198c50a932aa41be9b2e5a083f2cff

Aliases

arxiv: 1602.07241 · arxiv_version: 1602.07241v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1602.07241 · pith_short_12: MTSCDRFSDCG6 · pith_short_16: MTSCDRFSDCG6PI6N · pith_short_8: MTSCDRFS

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/MTSCDRFSDCG6PI6NDFSQWPB4W4 \
  | 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: 64e421c4b2188de7a3cd19650b3c3cb733198c50a932aa41be9b2e5a083f2cff

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6ccc075ee70e814509a46cf3edf42fe6edee3bd1516424222764ef9b82f7cf82",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2016-02-23T17:21:26Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2d042084f4a181d7b31920a28cf2cd324e5f3a0de17920e30eb9e1efc7d6617f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1602.07241",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}