Pith Number

pith:OY2IFPZG

pith:2015:OY2IFPZGBUIGLWMYSTKNVBQHUX

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Almost Strong Consistency: "Good Enough" in Distributed Storage Systems

Hengfeng Wei, Jian Lu, Jiannong Cao, Yu Huang

arxiv:1507.01663 v2 · 2015-07-07 · cs.DC · cs.DB

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{OY2IFPZGBUIGLWMYSTKNVBQHUX}

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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	2026-05-18T01:36:49.489667Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

763482bf260d1065d99894d4da8607a5f0119fae6074e05beaf06e4dc31c1645

Aliases

arxiv: 1507.01663 · arxiv_version: 1507.01663v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1507.01663 · pith_short_12: OY2IFPZGBUIG · pith_short_16: OY2IFPZGBUIGLWMY · pith_short_8: OY2IFPZG

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/OY2IFPZGBUIGLWMYSTKNVBQHUX \
  | 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: 763482bf260d1065d99894d4da8607a5f0119fae6074e05beaf06e4dc31c1645

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "facebf490208954c9853687e7945c82deb7b4b41d5802af26dc2d7d740fba0ec",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DB"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2015-07-07T03:22:32Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "59043237bf62a9bddfbeeb75d22c3bfdf91234acc42a743135be79a15eb9ab90"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1507.01663",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}