Pith Number

pith:MYT4UOSX

pith:2012:MYT4UOSXOQBPBGVXJDRRKMSWTR

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Decision Taking for Selling Thread Startup

Jan A. Bergstra

arxiv:1208.2460 v1 · 2012-08-12 · 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{MYT4UOSXOQBPBGVXJDRRKMSWTR}

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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	2026-05-18T03:48:57.809793Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6627ca3a577402f09ab748e31532569c48244e6c7929d2d2cac844167e3e1839

Aliases

arxiv: 1208.2460 · arxiv_version: 1208.2460v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1208.2460 · pith_short_12: MYT4UOSXOQBP · pith_short_16: MYT4UOSXOQBPBGVX · pith_short_8: MYT4UOSX

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/MYT4UOSXOQBPBGVXJDRRKMSWTR \
  | 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: 6627ca3a577402f09ab748e31532569c48244e6c7929d2d2cac844167e3e1839

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "87acbb485a9c0bfeb6756ebc3e4de7c58a65f532757fc56704904feefd51cc9d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2012-08-12T20:01:57Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "aa5c855502cb5644a0f9669ad4b39b13e7056d6aaab217fef10f1ac23859fb23"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1208.2460",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}