Pith Number

pith:PNGIW6S2

pith:2018:PNGIW6S25XLXJLOWCGGIAYINLP

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Dice in the Black Box: User Experiences with an Inscrutable Algorithm

Aaron Springer, Steve Whittaker, Victoria Hollis

arxiv:1812.03219 v1 · 2018-12-07 · cs.HC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{PNGIW6S25XLXJLOWCGGIAYINLP}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-05-17T23:58:46.870809Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7b4c8b7a5aedd774add6118c80610d5bf4b5c706d5c349b08e416ba997d041fe

Aliases

arxiv: 1812.03219 · arxiv_version: 1812.03219v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1812.03219 · pith_short_12: PNGIW6S25XLX · pith_short_16: PNGIW6S25XLXJLOW · pith_short_8: PNGIW6S2

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/PNGIW6S25XLXJLOWCGGIAYINLP \
  | 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: 7b4c8b7a5aedd774add6118c80610d5bf4b5c706d5c349b08e416ba997d041fe

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f5eca18ced52f68c6564377a652f64816c2d1a4ee5cf19f543822326a35cb25e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.HC",
    "submitted_at": "2018-12-07T21:37:49Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8b0f08ded55f8465d8b90bda83446d356a95d3381450aa6da9e7b6b371ba2e68"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1812.03219",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}