Pith Number

pith:OHJ4JCXE

pith:2003:OHJ4JCXE5KCSFKNHFP64NARC6O

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Goedel Machines: Self-Referential Universal Problem Solvers Making Provably Optimal Self-Improvements

Juergen Schmidhuber

arxiv:cs/0309048 v5 · 2003-09-25 · cs.LO · cs.AI

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First computed	2026-07-04T14:58:04.413509Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

71d3c48ae4ea8522a9a72bfdc68222f3aae66061539391704785cba8faf63040

Aliases

arxiv: cs/0309048 · arxiv_version: cs/0309048v5 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.cs/0309048 · pith_short_12: OHJ4JCXE5KCS · pith_short_16: OHJ4JCXE5KCSFKNH · pith_short_8: OHJ4JCXE

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/OHJ4JCXE5KCSFKNHFP64NARC6O \
  | 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: 71d3c48ae4ea8522a9a72bfdc68222f3aae66061539391704785cba8faf63040

Canonical record JSON

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  "metadata": {
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    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LO",
    "submitted_at": "2003-09-25T15:59:46Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d4803f30b289ef8e63f6703e88d345eb760e65c67a2af8e105fac3ed7f64670c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "cs/0309048",
    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}