Pith Number

pith:R3QT3VM3

pith:2018:R3QT3VM375IEKCUSVB33QSBJUA

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Talking by the numbers: Networks identify productive forum discussions

Adrienne Traxler, Andrew Gavrin, Rebecca Lindell

arxiv:1802.08738 v1 · 2018-02-23 · physics.ed-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{R3QT3VM375IEKCUSVB33QSBJUA}

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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	2026-05-18T00:06:05.021748Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8ee13dd59bff50450a92a877b84829a00f3e7f044057c7c3706c8e02722147e4

Aliases

arxiv: 1802.08738 · arxiv_version: 1802.08738v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1802.08738 · pith_short_12: R3QT3VM375IE · pith_short_16: R3QT3VM375IEKCUS · pith_short_8: R3QT3VM3

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/R3QT3VM375IEKCUSVB33QSBJUA \
  | 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: 8ee13dd59bff50450a92a877b84829a00f3e7f044057c7c3706c8e02722147e4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "36961a1a3edbcbe1038fdcfd20b731a53c75e53596d8d6c0f87293c14d1ab229",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.ed-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2018-02-23T21:20:24Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "715c411e91e77b834881a84d79adde3804a91c0de9cbda9207dc1fd44e0f52e4"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1802.08738",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}