Pith Number

pith:QCBN5OAF

pith:2013:QCBN5OAFTU6SG37HEZAYC57SSN

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The Beer Can Theory of Creativity

Liane Gabora

arxiv:1309.7414 v3 · 2013-09-28 · q-bio.NC · nlin.AO

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{QCBN5OAFTU6SG37HEZAYC57SSN}

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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	2026-05-17T23:41:02.484346Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8082deb8059d3d236fe726418177f2935ef06697a9ab6c51f20c6d4809a7b4e5

Aliases

arxiv: 1309.7414 · arxiv_version: 1309.7414v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1309.7414 · pith_short_12: QCBN5OAFTU6S · pith_short_16: QCBN5OAFTU6SG37H · pith_short_8: QCBN5OAF

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/QCBN5OAFTU6SG37HEZAYC57SSN \
  | 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: 8082deb8059d3d236fe726418177f2935ef06697a9ab6c51f20c6d4809a7b4e5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "493b6079e66511b946bb92bc7bef6a5745f76b2f9a81fd5af3174f2ee0322ed5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "nlin.AO"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.NC",
    "submitted_at": "2013-09-28T03:07:53Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3b39a499c2d041cf15a56f294c812fb0ad07715098df2abab889584c810c4c56"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1309.7414",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}