Pith Number

pith:OK2VBZYV

pith:2012:OK2VBZYVCU5SVRKS46X3IHPMJD

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Informaticology: combining Computer Science, Data Science, and Fiction Science

Jan A. Bergstra

arxiv:1210.6636 v1 · 2012-10-24 · cs.SE

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{OK2VBZYVCU5SVRKS46X3IHPMJD}

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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	2026-05-18T03:42:24.363754Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

72b550e715153b2ac552e7afb41dec48ee88e53376589128abceb25828843b22

Aliases

arxiv: 1210.6636 · arxiv_version: 1210.6636v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1210.6636 · pith_short_12: OK2VBZYVCU5S · pith_short_16: OK2VBZYVCU5SVRKS · pith_short_8: OK2VBZYV

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/OK2VBZYVCU5SVRKS46X3IHPMJD \
  | 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: 72b550e715153b2ac552e7afb41dec48ee88e53376589128abceb25828843b22

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "00060d2d20766a9862c75f2a79a8e0958eda2c4ea78d2d012c29dcab73ace3f0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2012-10-24T19:24:59Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c6c5e2cd220c63c98f1628eb449eef7cefbd054f58951b911ee9ac70ac81c033"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1210.6636",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}