Pith Number

pith:VCFKWRJX

pith:2017:VCFKWRJXLLOQPVQYIP7EPBZJC4

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Stream VByte: Faster Byte-Oriented Integer Compression

Christoph Rupp, Daniel Lemire, Nathan Kurz

arxiv:1709.08990 v2 · 2017-09-25 · cs.IR · cs.DB

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VCFKWRJXLLOQPVQYIP7EPBZJC4}

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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	2026-05-18T00:33:12.768940Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a88aab45375add07d61843fe478729173878ea1e586a47bda2c695553ef3dd8c

Aliases

arxiv: 1709.08990 · arxiv_version: 1709.08990v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1709.08990 · pith_short_12: VCFKWRJXLLOQ · pith_short_16: VCFKWRJXLLOQPVQY · pith_short_8: VCFKWRJX

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/VCFKWRJXLLOQPVQYIP7EPBZJC4 \
  | 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: a88aab45375add07d61843fe478729173878ea1e586a47bda2c695553ef3dd8c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3863cdca8d46329fb63de635e4f64507ee37a0b28827741e70991764b192cd04",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DB"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IR",
    "submitted_at": "2017-09-25T14:45:20Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9322bc422b7a55da4fa34d893f3d6050164a48a9d63b6b1204e0ac0fded10601"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1709.08990",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}