Pith Number

pith:Q7WYLPHV

pith:2026:Q7WYLPHVME2A4GW6XFJW4ERI3N

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

When is Enough Enough? A Proposed Termination Point for the Number of Replicates in Computational Simulations

Eric T. Lofgren, Kellen Myers, Nina H. Fefferman

arxiv:2606.10109 v1 · 2026-06-08 · q-bio.OT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{Q7WYLPHVME2A4GW6XFJW4ERI3N}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-06-10T01:08:54.705249Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

87ed85bcf561340e1adeb9536e1228db650ea8f43b974d0791891991f663824f

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.10109 · arxiv_version: 2606.10109v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.10109 · pith_short_12: Q7WYLPHVME2A · pith_short_16: Q7WYLPHVME2A4GW6 · pith_short_8: Q7WYLPHV

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/Q7WYLPHVME2A4GW6XFJW4ERI3N \
  | 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: 87ed85bcf561340e1adeb9536e1228db650ea8f43b974d0791891991f663824f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e009abf51e36f9b5ab7d92730aa52dd96ef600028c8722a71f393cae09104dd6",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.OT",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-08T19:39:08Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e9fbdad52c97c4fad50227119367805503b529f29becac1680d05232d7c33942"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.10109",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}