Pith Number

pith:MYEKYZPX

pith:2019:MYEKYZPXWQQLQLQKNVFLRNXRMH

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Future of Computing is Boring (and that is exciting!) or How to get to Computing Nirvana in 20 years or less

Aleksander Slominski, Vatche Ishakian, Vinod Muthusamy

arxiv:1906.10398 v1 · 2019-06-25 · cs.CY

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MYEKYZPXWQQLQLQKNVFLRNXRMH}

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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	2026-05-17T23:42:18.182283Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6608ac65f7b420b82e0a6d4ab8b6f161da40c9cafc9ec9286bab343525ae7db0

Aliases

arxiv: 1906.10398 · arxiv_version: 1906.10398v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1906.10398 · pith_short_12: MYEKYZPXWQQL · pith_short_16: MYEKYZPXWQQLQLQK · pith_short_8: MYEKYZPX

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/MYEKYZPXWQQLQLQKNVFLRNXRMH \
  | 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: 6608ac65f7b420b82e0a6d4ab8b6f161da40c9cafc9ec9286bab343525ae7db0

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6eb7d822fa217dfc39a8c9b745b4242c74195e644fbc3ca366b93b9500a174ab",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CY",
    "submitted_at": "2019-06-25T09:10:40Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c6ccfcd07717b93bf7f9679fefa2b023138df6b36db784987f1f08b66aee4328"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1906.10398",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}