Pith Number

pith:V5AVQ3WO

pith:2015:V5AVQ3WOLETCOE3KQTLPEUDRBD

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The Olympic Medals Ranks, lexicographic ordering and numerical infinities

Yaroslav D. Sergeyev

arxiv:1509.04313 v1 · 2015-09-11 · math.HO

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{V5AVQ3WOLETCOE3KQTLPEUDRBD}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T01:33:07.503160Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

af41586ece592627136a84d6f2507108c7a0844480aeee0631d09d3c5c975be2

Aliases

arxiv: 1509.04313 · arxiv_version: 1509.04313v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1509.04313 · pith_short_12: V5AVQ3WOLETC · pith_short_16: V5AVQ3WOLETCOE3K · pith_short_8: V5AVQ3WO

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/V5AVQ3WOLETCOE3KQTLPEUDRBD \
  | 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: af41586ece592627136a84d6f2507108c7a0844480aeee0631d09d3c5c975be2

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "128cad4cb55766e85e3a8428c95a7997880e2ac7e3d699bfae73931338d45ade",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.HO",
    "submitted_at": "2015-09-11T17:15:46Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "792e3a560a65fb510ab66b0c7dd0ff6c0cafb5f7244d006a6c85e40af63d4623"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1509.04313",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}