Pith Number

pith:OCJZ2M53

pith:2015:OCJZ2M53QKTC2ZHOAIWW2CRR5O

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A zero-sum monetary system, interest rates, and implications

Brian P. Hanley

arxiv:1506.08231 v3 · 2015-06-26 · cs.CE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{OCJZ2M53QKTC2ZHOAIWW2CRR5O}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:04:32.872822Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

70939d33bb82a62d64ee022d6d0a31ebb01c120ce84df1028d888b39a209e9b9

Aliases

arxiv: 1506.08231 · arxiv_version: 1506.08231v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1506.08231 · pith_short_12: OCJZ2M53QKTC · pith_short_16: OCJZ2M53QKTC2ZHO · pith_short_8: OCJZ2M53

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/OCJZ2M53QKTC2ZHOAIWW2CRR5O \
  | 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: 70939d33bb82a62d64ee022d6d0a31ebb01c120ce84df1028d888b39a209e9b9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "587cc07492ab27161f059b8fdd36d97cc8294f1b01fed8fb6cc8a0e7ea3c3e08",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CE",
    "submitted_at": "2015-06-26T22:23:22Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c942f00cf31f66ede1ee4df3e2e668feecc4dc4937f7a817f444f07ef5104fd7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1506.08231",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}