Pith Number

pith:OLW5ARQ4

pith:2024:OLW5ARQ4HYX27DUGJ7UZZ7ELCU

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Improved Initial Guesses for Numerical Solutions of Kepler's Equation

Kevin J Napier

arxiv:2411.15374 v1 · 2024-11-22 · astro-ph.EP · astro-ph.IM · physics.comp-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{OLW5ARQ4HYX27DUGJ7UZZ7ELCU}

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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.

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First computed	2026-07-05T09:40:01.351646Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

72edd0461c3e2faf8e864fe99cfc8b15380e811a17491537f4c64f9ffa74d1aa

Aliases

arxiv: 2411.15374 · arxiv_version: 2411.15374v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2411.15374 · pith_short_12: OLW5ARQ4HYX2 · pith_short_16: OLW5ARQ4HYX27DUG · pith_short_8: OLW5ARQ4

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/OLW5ARQ4HYX27DUGJ7UZZ7ELCU \
  | 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: 72edd0461c3e2faf8e864fe99cfc8b15380e811a17491537f4c64f9ffa74d1aa

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "63fab8b8763206b335c469c288452c5662c995a1346cfe4efd59fb1d6bbe5170",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.IM",
      "physics.comp-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.EP",
    "submitted_at": "2024-11-22T23:23:53Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "558a5864a9ffa0295e2d5ae0daf056bc891705d3077eab8decedb6e6c8cbfa9e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2411.15374",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}