Pith Number

pith:VJ5MH4MN

pith:2018:VJ5MH4MNN5BVQH4THTOIELSLDF

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On the ranking of Test match batsmen

Peter M. Philipson, Richard J. Boys

arxiv:1806.05496 v1 · 2018-06-14 · stat.AP

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VJ5MH4MNN5BVQH4THTOIELSLDF}

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:13:15.045965Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

aa7ac3f18d6f43581f933cdc822e4b196ddb1272efd744d0060b9f11423f833c

Aliases

arxiv: 1806.05496 · arxiv_version: 1806.05496v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1806.05496 · pith_short_12: VJ5MH4MNN5BV · pith_short_16: VJ5MH4MNN5BVQH4T · pith_short_8: VJ5MH4MN

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/VJ5MH4MNN5BVQH4THTOIELSLDF \
  | 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: aa7ac3f18d6f43581f933cdc822e4b196ddb1272efd744d0060b9f11423f833c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e5cd16ebfd971a5bcc43aaea49d45a6ac62266c4885435081b8b5db3279e34fa",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.AP",
    "submitted_at": "2018-06-14T12:21:24Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c8cb45739e245bdefcac1a87fc86482d35763bbcc3492307e224bcaa6c9b19c1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1806.05496",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}