Pith Number

pith:NQOS6RBZ

pith:2026:NQOS6RBZN24BBSUL7PQXVKIVEP

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The Khipu Problem: Institutional Legibility Under Distributed Cognition

Krti Tallam

arxiv:2606.12414 v1 · 2026-05-06 · cs.CY

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NQOS6RBZN24BBSUL7PQXVKIVEP}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-06-12T00:07:49.501708Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6c1d2f44396eb810ca8bfbe17aa91523cb8d335f38265aa92a5d8ec115b76935

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.12414 · arxiv_version: 2606.12414v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.12414 · pith_short_12: NQOS6RBZN24B · pith_short_16: NQOS6RBZN24BBSUL · pith_short_8: NQOS6RBZ

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/NQOS6RBZN24BBSUL7PQXVKIVEP \
  | 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: 6c1d2f44396eb810ca8bfbe17aa91523cb8d335f38265aa92a5d8ec115b76935

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "89430c62744b1df4b3c9ed046e31b41baa31f7a4137a30ccd37dc50600ac51e3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CY",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-06T16:51:52Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "eb272d5f09f2761487d2191ca0b94ba1191a3081117f9c3a0d8003633f624ea1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.12414",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}