Pith Number

pith:S3NTUTE3

pith:2014:S3NTUTE32TU4LJWBJIRDDLR3R4

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

More randomness from noisy sources

Jean-Daniel Bancal, Valerio Scarani

arxiv:1407.0856 v3 · 2014-07-03 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{S3NTUTE32TU4LJWBJIRDDLR3R4}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T02:31:35.837248Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

96db3a4c9bd4e9c5a6c14a2231ae3b8f1ad36e9056f2388e8c520c025c2e7ff0

Aliases

arxiv: 1407.0856 · arxiv_version: 1407.0856v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1407.0856 · pith_short_12: S3NTUTE32TU4 · pith_short_16: S3NTUTE32TU4LJWB · pith_short_8: S3NTUTE3

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/S3NTUTE32TU4LJWBJIRDDLR3R4 \
  | 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: 96db3a4c9bd4e9c5a6c14a2231ae3b8f1ad36e9056f2388e8c520c025c2e7ff0

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2bc20a8b0caa1be129b16e6dbe781f41cdec79b0cda93acc2522e918298c0da1",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2014-07-03T10:31:32Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ca5dfed1c32d0124d6c46a0d6c66fb10dbfd19f56c82a1abffc9548ccc98c1b4"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1407.0856",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}