Pith Number

pith:PWG2YFEH

pith:2017:PWG2YFEHJST7UBR3YQU7I6PYGK

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Kolmogorov Complexity and Information Content

Fouad B. Chedid

arxiv:1710.06846 v1 · 2017-09-17 · cs.IT · cs.CC · math.IT

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{PWG2YFEHJST7UBR3YQU7I6PYGK}

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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	2026-05-18T00:32:31.910496Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7d8dac14874ca7fa063bc429f479f832b6b9ac8bfe8d14a306fd42f0befa2f94

Aliases

arxiv: 1710.06846 · arxiv_version: 1710.06846v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1710.06846 · pith_short_12: PWG2YFEHJST7 · pith_short_16: PWG2YFEHJST7UBR3 · pith_short_8: PWG2YFEH

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/PWG2YFEHJST7UBR3YQU7I6PYGK \
  | 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: 7d8dac14874ca7fa063bc429f479f832b6b9ac8bfe8d14a306fd42f0befa2f94

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3bd14c49e30f1c85f0be67828cfcc8671101a5676527e518c9db29d0b3f31a7d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CC",
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2017-09-17T04:09:18Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5fcf6d574e195080a864ed0798a50d6cb8cb734d4f09445ddf99bd6a50faca5e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1710.06846",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}