Pith Number

pith:VA7BMILS

pith:2018:VA7BMILSOTV3BJDGZR33WGA5QQ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Middle-Out Decoding

Leonid Sigal, Shikib Mehri

arxiv:1810.11735 v1 · 2018-10-28 · cs.CL

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VA7BMILSOTV3BJDGZR33WGA5QQ}

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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	2026-05-18T00:02:07.583129Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a83e16217274ebb0a466cc77bb181d841b8ca1f3ff690f69490bfc8631259e2d

Aliases

arxiv: 1810.11735 · arxiv_version: 1810.11735v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1810.11735 · pith_short_12: VA7BMILSOTV3 · pith_short_16: VA7BMILSOTV3BJDG · pith_short_8: VA7BMILS

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/VA7BMILSOTV3BJDGZR33WGA5QQ \
  | 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: a83e16217274ebb0a466cc77bb181d841b8ca1f3ff690f69490bfc8631259e2d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f788bfb65ab9e4902b6b527da1cf3a51c27e6f97a77e2647ee977edfa951bc46",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2018-10-28T00:19:26Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "cb016c4ad8bedc8f7d3df71942d22ccad3a6a2d2419bf452d9beb025366a67bd"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1810.11735",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}