Pith Number

pith:TVRQ4OG7

pith:2016:TVRQ4OG7GGAYRSL65WO7ZOJWGW

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Tracing technological development trajectories: A genetic knowledge persistence-based main path approach

Christopher L. Magee, Hyunseok Park

arxiv:1608.07371 v1 · 2016-08-26 · cs.CY · cs.DL · cs.SI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{TVRQ4OG7GGAYRSL65WO7ZOJWGW}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:31:42.067674Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

9d630e38df318188c97eed9dfcb936359c3169c47759c802d00c49fac25affca

Aliases

arxiv: 1608.07371 · arxiv_version: 1608.07371v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1608.07371 · pith_short_12: TVRQ4OG7GGAY · pith_short_16: TVRQ4OG7GGAYRSL6 · pith_short_8: TVRQ4OG7

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/TVRQ4OG7GGAYRSL65WO7ZOJWGW \
  | 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: 9d630e38df318188c97eed9dfcb936359c3169c47759c802d00c49fac25affca

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1b1790c8382319a90c960231c3995a0818b6ae994f9d584e65b82c84699ff7a4",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DL",
      "cs.SI"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CY",
    "submitted_at": "2016-08-26T07:02:37Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "76928170dbb4b39236b443cef6acd82eb0daefa7e70560bba097b80c635342df"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1608.07371",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}