Pith Number

pith:QCRTF2FU

pith:2016:QCRTF2FUIQU3UM3BSIVNQAB6S3

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Real Stability Testing

Nick Ryder, Nikhil Srivastava, Prasad Raghavendra

arxiv:1610.00209 v1 · 2016-10-02 · cs.DS

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{QCRTF2FUIQU3UM3BSIVNQAB6S3}

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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	2026-05-18T01:03:31.613174Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

80a332e8b44429ba3361922ad8003e96e479c87c004ac56cbe40ad3c20c251e5

Aliases

arxiv: 1610.00209 · arxiv_version: 1610.00209v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1610.00209 · pith_short_12: QCRTF2FUIQU3 · pith_short_16: QCRTF2FUIQU3UM3B · pith_short_8: QCRTF2FU

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/QCRTF2FUIQU3UM3BSIVNQAB6S3 \
  | 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: 80a332e8b44429ba3361922ad8003e96e479c87c004ac56cbe40ad3c20c251e5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "64aaa6caf11ab712861c2ca7e7cf60d627182766d9a5bae824cf654feb80f3d3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2016-10-02T00:15:53Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "87d0c7a1cb5d0e2a5e802780d1936946250f51f0279dbab987915c4717038016"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1610.00209",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}