Pith Number

pith:SMIQZB6U

pith:2017:SMIQZB6UYFI7PRMJYFNQPMBMOL

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The thermodynamics of quasi-deterministic digital computers

Dominique Chu

arxiv:1706.02206 v3 · 2017-06-07 · cond-mat.stat-mech

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{SMIQZB6UYFI7PRMJYFNQPMBMOL}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-18T00:22:59.280597Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

93110c87d4c151f7c589c15b07b02c72d447b727bac2231fd42a8a2893c471fd

Aliases

arxiv: 1706.02206 · arxiv_version: 1706.02206v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1706.02206 · pith_short_12: SMIQZB6UYFI7 · pith_short_16: SMIQZB6UYFI7PRMJ · pith_short_8: SMIQZB6U

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/SMIQZB6UYFI7PRMJYFNQPMBMOL \
  | 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: 93110c87d4c151f7c589c15b07b02c72d447b727bac2231fd42a8a2893c471fd

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0e639810f67385d13bde81d153854390328e84a3d02b0870299161e27253c0ca",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cond-mat.stat-mech",
    "submitted_at": "2017-06-07T14:26:35Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "45a45d92d754e48e7f7ac792b7c0b3dd237ee64517afc9f8cf65154befd67c7b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1706.02206",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}