Pith Number

pith:OYXJEENX

pith:2017:OYXJEENXJPP7IPYAEGM4BF3B5K

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A Probabilistic Framework for Quantifying Biological Complexity

Alastair R. G. Murray, Leroy Cronin, Stuart M. Marshall

arxiv:1705.03460 v1 · 2017-05-09 · q-bio.OT · cs.IT · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{OYXJEENXJPP7IPYAEGM4BF3B5K}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-18T00:24:17.553261Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

762e9211b74bdff43f002199c09761eaae3fcff5b443d82e4b497a05d8f28f55

Aliases

arxiv: 1705.03460 · arxiv_version: 1705.03460v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1705.03460 · pith_short_12: OYXJEENXJPP7 · pith_short_16: OYXJEENXJPP7IPYA · pith_short_8: OYXJEENX

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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/OYXJEENXJPP7IPYAEGM4BF3B5K \
  | 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: 762e9211b74bdff43f002199c09761eaae3fcff5b443d82e4b497a05d8f28f55

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "20292ba0b254001dacde65ffc26faf986e3085c69a63adf7abfe37fe8f93a83c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.IT",
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.OT",
    "submitted_at": "2017-05-09T21:13:25Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4f6433dd0a83baa3f88fb3e7cd9789bd0f90b18c522f5bfe3ac7d882e2a5775f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1705.03460",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}