Pith Number

pith:T7BE4TV6

pith:2013:T7BE4TV6D72DNATZZZGANVQ2LX

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Spreading huge free software without internet connection, via self-replicating USB keys

Thierry Monteil

arxiv:1311.6754 v1 · 2013-11-13 · cs.OH

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{T7BE4TV6D72DNATZZZGANVQ2LX}

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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	2026-05-18T03:06:05.946227Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

9fc24e4ebe1ff4368279ce4c06d61a5deee33d5c453a4bcf3450961d91fabcf7

Aliases

arxiv: 1311.6754 · arxiv_version: 1311.6754v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1311.6754 · pith_short_12: T7BE4TV6D72D · pith_short_16: T7BE4TV6D72DNATZ · pith_short_8: T7BE4TV6

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/T7BE4TV6D72DNATZZZGANVQ2LX \
  | 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: 9fc24e4ebe1ff4368279ce4c06d61a5deee33d5c453a4bcf3450961d91fabcf7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "cf94dd4fb16f77b417a39cc685e9be0f8913784682a53748364977dbe24f7480",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.OH",
    "submitted_at": "2013-11-13T15:52:33Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "607292c85840666048192afbca53b64246c5840fa827c66fcacb21bcc41665dc"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1311.6754",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}