Pith Number

pith:ODDBFJUN

pith:2011:ODDBFJUNOT36UJ4PDYXMV6GK77

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Why Cheating is Wrong

Michael Courtney, Scott Williams

arxiv:1102.1506 v1 · 2011-02-08 · physics.ed-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ODDBFJUNOT36UJ4PDYXMV6GK77}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T04:29:53.093855Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

70c612a68d74f7ea278f1e2ecaf8caffc03c32607ff80efb913f69ebd5ffe2f0

Aliases

arxiv: 1102.1506 · arxiv_version: 1102.1506v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1102.1506 · pith_short_12: ODDBFJUNOT36 · pith_short_16: ODDBFJUNOT36UJ4P · pith_short_8: ODDBFJUN

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/ODDBFJUNOT36UJ4PDYXMV6GK77 \
  | 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: 70c612a68d74f7ea278f1e2ecaf8caffc03c32607ff80efb913f69ebd5ffe2f0

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "119113290df2ebe1e6a058e834f60a31c0720b356df5ab5f582181619b40a1b7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.ed-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2011-02-08T04:45:09Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b7342d219316c574bca859550ae9558ea6e568a9e26f2c0880a4d7d19a48000b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1102.1506",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}