Pith Number

pith:TEUGPGAK

pith:2018:TEUGPGAKXEZGLDSLQLQISSK3JS

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Towards a Theory of Data-Diff: Optimal Synthesis of Succinct Data Modification Scripts

Aditya Parameswaran, Stephen Macke, Tana Wattanawaroon

arxiv:1801.06258 v1 · 2018-01-19 · cs.DB

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{TEUGPGAKXEZGLDSLQLQISSK3JS}

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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	2026-05-18T00:25:33.036445Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

992867980ab932658e4b82e089495b4c97c2f4f95726294832ef23c52aaa3bed

Aliases

arxiv: 1801.06258 · arxiv_version: 1801.06258v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1801.06258 · pith_short_12: TEUGPGAKXEZG · pith_short_16: TEUGPGAKXEZGLDSL · pith_short_8: TEUGPGAK

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/TEUGPGAKXEZGLDSLQLQISSK3JS \
  | 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: 992867980ab932658e4b82e089495b4c97c2f4f95726294832ef23c52aaa3bed

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0a03279036f511d038ad043b34f293bd857e3863302bebd39130e126f446249c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DB",
    "submitted_at": "2018-01-19T00:02:34Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6f0af53f03eb8e410b26031c1bbba2a29bf3526c2e8f4d2e90bde0034eb36944"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1801.06258",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}