Pith Number

pith:V6XY2U6Q

pith:2013:V6XY2U6QJG5U2Q2BJOQTOBDVFJ

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The genome of the medieval Black Death agent (extended abstract)

Ashok Rajaraman, Cedric Chauve, Eric Tannier

arxiv:1307.7642 v1 · 2013-07-29 · q-bio.GN

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{V6XY2U6QJG5U2Q2BJOQTOBDVFJ}

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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	2026-05-18T03:17:22.791275Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

afaf8d53d049bb4d43414ba13704752a4d87d4a844f81eab69e91b36db31b51d

Aliases

arxiv: 1307.7642 · arxiv_version: 1307.7642v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1307.7642 · pith_short_12: V6XY2U6QJG5U · pith_short_16: V6XY2U6QJG5U2Q2B · pith_short_8: V6XY2U6Q

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/V6XY2U6QJG5U2Q2BJOQTOBDVFJ \
  | 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: afaf8d53d049bb4d43414ba13704752a4d87d4a844f81eab69e91b36db31b51d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a269cfde5b49173f4b989b05f67c56bf1ca5ed40b9b19405f0611dd73a5f0124",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.GN",
    "submitted_at": "2013-07-29T16:56:55Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9a856fd056704b509390825e7d1a93b9c67947c813c50e18374a1f7e1f49ffec"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1307.7642",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}