Pith Number

pith:MXS2I7C6

pith:2013:MXS2I7C63IIMZ3TO47UDYMA3KV

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Image simulation for biological microscopy: microlith

Rudolf Oldenbourg, Shalin B. Mehta

arxiv:1305.7149 v2 · 2013-05-30 · physics.optics · q-bio.QM

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MXS2I7C63IIMZ3TO47UDYMA3KV}

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First computed	2026-05-18T02:52:04.217522Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

65e5a47c5eda10ccee6ee7e83c301b554e903c35ba0bc3631fffe91e9e1a9f97

Aliases

arxiv: 1305.7149 · arxiv_version: 1305.7149v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1305.7149 · pith_short_12: MXS2I7C63IIM · pith_short_16: MXS2I7C63IIMZ3TO · pith_short_8: MXS2I7C6

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/MXS2I7C63IIMZ3TO47UDYMA3KV \
  | 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: 65e5a47c5eda10ccee6ee7e83c301b554e903c35ba0bc3631fffe91e9e1a9f97

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4003906b3c0be598cae305f36110b60ad3823d5347c4f5c1ecf310e3b878936c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "q-bio.QM"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.optics",
    "submitted_at": "2013-05-30T15:59:10Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ab490056ed68f2b132c1e0eb6892535fc5b0d5eb6807b0502b582f1f3e7d025a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1305.7149",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}