Pith Number

pith:U2S5NDVW

pith:2003:U2S5NDVWTO3UIJLNWXCR533FPT

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Non-deterministic random bit generator based on electronics noise

Mario Stip\v{c}evi\'c

arxiv:physics/0309010 v2 · 2003-08-31 · physics.comp-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{U2S5NDVWTO3UIJLNWXCR533FPT}

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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	2026-05-18T02:03:56.135008Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a6a5d68eb69bb744256db5c51eef657cfbf132d50dfb9694e53150348b4fc09e

Aliases

arxiv: physics/0309010 · arxiv_version: physics/0309010v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.physics/0309010 · pith_short_12: U2S5NDVWTO3U · pith_short_16: U2S5NDVWTO3UIJLN · pith_short_8: U2S5NDVW

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/U2S5NDVWTO3UIJLNWXCR533FPT \
  | 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: a6a5d68eb69bb744256db5c51eef657cfbf132d50dfb9694e53150348b4fc09e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "40db1bf4f000b729e74c320aa8c4b0e0e07ba2e9cc0736388adc3087c58d4625",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "physics.comp-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2003-08-31T00:04:30Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1171f7e080c2f023c838fc456fee1cb54bad107e8f1f58bd8418d20313cc27a3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "physics/0309010",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}