Pith Number

pith:VLC6TOWN

pith:2026:VLC6TOWNW4ADRKHFCLJBJUTKOJ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Validating the Single Item Kawaii Measure

Katie Seaborn, Yijia Wang

arxiv:2607.19352 v1 · 2026-05-13 · cs.HC · cs.CY · cs.MM · cs.SD

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VLC6TOWNW4ADRKHFCLJBJUTKOJ}

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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	2026-07-23T00:23:44.305340Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

aac5e9bacdb70038a8e512d214d26a72649b07c9071b67341800261d2e3e76ab

Aliases

arxiv: 2607.19352 · arxiv_version: 2607.19352v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2607.19352 · pith_short_12: VLC6TOWNW4AD · pith_short_16: VLC6TOWNW4ADRKHF · pith_short_8: VLC6TOWN

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/VLC6TOWNW4ADRKHFCLJBJUTKOJ \
  | 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: aac5e9bacdb70038a8e512d214d26a72649b07c9071b67341800261d2e3e76ab

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "61e6e52534a91094350ad17b25a01f57a2c7721ded403733acc5519dac51a364",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CY",
      "cs.MM",
      "cs.SD"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.HC",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-13T09:42:04Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "cc2588004d48d43129307f7ed656b630bda3b4d57f676672f276837476dda485"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2607.19352",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}