Pith Number

pith:NDJSXNJZ

pith:2014:NDJSXNJZXKSD7MNYC4JUAPB7W7

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Paul Ezhilchelvan, Ryan Emerson

arxiv:1404.7548 v2 · 2014-04-29 · cs.DC

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NDJSXNJZXKSD7MNYC4JUAPB7W7}

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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	2026-05-18T02:52:22.920256Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

68d32bb539baa43fb1b81713403c3fb7ea37ad20dbda377ad1753713bc49b0a2

Aliases

arxiv: 1404.7548 · arxiv_version: 1404.7548v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1404.7548 · pith_short_12: NDJSXNJZXKSD · pith_short_16: NDJSXNJZXKSD7MNY · pith_short_8: NDJSXNJZ

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/NDJSXNJZXKSD7MNYC4JUAPB7W7 \
  | 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: 68d32bb539baa43fb1b81713403c3fb7ea37ad20dbda377ad1753713bc49b0a2

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ad24919c203fbb02882cc7b5d638ee92d20383c308d40d604af3cdae0d8f6e2a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2014-04-29T22:16:48Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9eb4e68c492280abf5ee0e11148cbf4075b21913bacb61ed79f5b635827d33e8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1404.7548",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}