Pith Number

pith:MY3K4CNL

pith:2016:MY3K4CNLFG5AP6RIQGJPQTOW2Q

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Covering segments with unit squares

Ankush Acharyya, Sasanka Roy, Subhas C. Nandy, Supantha Pandit

arxiv:1607.07256 v2 · 2016-07-25 · cs.CG

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MY3K4CNLFG5AP6RIQGJPQTOW2Q}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T01:03:48.835384Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6636ae09ab29ba07fa288192f84dd6d402a6c83f6d36e3b82d5533cf467b8565

Aliases

arxiv: 1607.07256 · arxiv_version: 1607.07256v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1607.07256 · pith_short_12: MY3K4CNLFG5A · pith_short_16: MY3K4CNLFG5AP6RI · pith_short_8: MY3K4CNL

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/MY3K4CNLFG5AP6RIQGJPQTOW2Q \
  | 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: 6636ae09ab29ba07fa288192f84dd6d402a6c83f6d36e3b82d5533cf467b8565

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "01316c8562c8fb526a48973bcaec6ad72e6bc8ff0c6e55f5e2567ad41df0a0c2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CG",
    "submitted_at": "2016-07-25T13:13:18Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e1903ab25f974dc8f348e6778ae289efc2a9c98e5d1a891943e4e12417771063"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1607.07256",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}