Pith Number

pith:NBDWLPF6

pith:2019:NBDWLPF67A2ZTDRR5RCU73BJ76

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Anthony D. Rhodes

arxiv:1908.06183 v1 · 2019-08-16 · cs.AI

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NBDWLPF67A2ZTDRR5RCU73BJ76}

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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	2026-07-04T23:58:13.353980Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

684765bcbef835998e31ec454fec29ffa7dc07f54bda0f4dab653b7349c70503

Aliases

arxiv: 1908.06183 · arxiv_version: 1908.06183v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1908.06183 · pith_short_12: NBDWLPF67A2Z · pith_short_16: NBDWLPF67A2ZTDRR · pith_short_8: NBDWLPF6

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/NBDWLPF67A2ZTDRR5RCU73BJ76 \
  | 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: 684765bcbef835998e31ec454fec29ffa7dc07f54bda0f4dab653b7349c70503

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6e9c9f1dbaecfeed3342781aa46e9add89b0ce54922287b4582aca305099f5f6",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2019-08-16T21:26:14Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f21730d85657835ac2fa0c8c810ad05d898d4be0635559e0647ca3580d9e43e1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1908.06183",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}