Pith Number

pith:URJYGC3N

pith:2009:URJYGC3NEYDBWCGCCELNS7QP5E

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Quantifying Rational Belief

Ariel Caticha

arxiv:0908.3212 v2 · 2009-08-21 · physics.data-an · cs.AI

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{URJYGC3NEYDBWCGCCELNS7QP5E}

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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	2026-05-18T02:12:24.049393Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a453830b6d26061b08c21116d97e0fe91bd47920c583fe8312157ba4be6651d4

Aliases

arxiv: 0908.3212 · arxiv_version: 0908.3212v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0908.3212 · pith_short_12: URJYGC3NEYDB · pith_short_16: URJYGC3NEYDBWCGC · pith_short_8: URJYGC3N

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/URJYGC3NEYDBWCGCCELNS7QP5E \
  | 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: a453830b6d26061b08c21116d97e0fe91bd47920c583fe8312157ba4be6651d4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "eeeb3c316796c0ab7c74481d9fb5e9407a27f204f8e8854badf6118c55f45408",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.data-an",
    "submitted_at": "2009-08-21T22:42:38Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "19b36b40bba5e6e531c3beb41d3462ae820497e676e1374fc4cbf0856baf59ba"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0908.3212",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}