Pith Number

pith:SMCFB4BY

pith:2016:SMCFB4BYGHRVDXOAKFPRREZKDE

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Portage: Bringing Hackers' Wisdom to Science

Benda Xu, Guilherme Amadio

arxiv:1610.02742 v1 · 2016-10-10 · cs.DC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{SMCFB4BYGHRVDXOAKFPRREZKDE}

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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	2026-05-18T01:02:50.851539Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

930450f03831e351ddc0515f18932a193390109e9e169766bcb96b063d771a61

Aliases

arxiv: 1610.02742 · arxiv_version: 1610.02742v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1610.02742 · pith_short_12: SMCFB4BYGHRV · pith_short_16: SMCFB4BYGHRVDXOA · pith_short_8: SMCFB4BY

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/SMCFB4BYGHRVDXOAKFPRREZKDE \
  | 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: 930450f03831e351ddc0515f18932a193390109e9e169766bcb96b063d771a61

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0ae91ebe6600f776fed12d971aa73dfabf460160811733a194479d472a03fef3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2016-10-10T00:19:32Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "37c686513d876db07ad208f271e7781259827dd0b7a887f709ae2a93a43791bf"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1610.02742",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}