Pith Number

pith:VPC3IR7C

pith:2017:VPC3IR7CBNUSXCD2ZD4YIH4FQ5

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Towards a Holistic Integration of Spreadsheets with Databases: A Scalable Storage Engine for Presentational Data Management

Aditya Parameswaran, Kevin Chang, Mangesh Bendre, Vipul Venkataraman, Xinyan Zhou

arxiv:1708.06712 v2 · 2017-08-22 · cs.DB

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VPC3IR7CBNUSXCD2ZD4YIH4FQ5}

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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	2026-05-18T00:33:34.503423Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

abc5b447e20b692b887ac8f9841f85877969bc7a5e8bb10b75caa0fafd9ce9da

Aliases

arxiv: 1708.06712 · arxiv_version: 1708.06712v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1708.06712 · pith_short_12: VPC3IR7CBNUS · pith_short_16: VPC3IR7CBNUSXCD2 · pith_short_8: VPC3IR7C

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/VPC3IR7CBNUSXCD2ZD4YIH4FQ5 \
  | 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: abc5b447e20b692b887ac8f9841f85877969bc7a5e8bb10b75caa0fafd9ce9da

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "36d2a8626e17ce8930f7174cb65684c1747d6450599ade4dfa5d1bedb6044e8a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DB",
    "submitted_at": "2017-08-22T16:37:22Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e53ad44283f661bc5fc9b91702e51384b0d8a5caa15dc8d3f04ae5abb0da6451"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1708.06712",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}