Pith Number

pith:VQLLPX3M

pith:2012:VQLLPX3MSMWVWFFKSRLPGOE5UM

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Bounded Counter Languages

Holger Petersen

arxiv:1204.0833 v1 · 2012-04-03 · cs.FL

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VQLLPX3MSMWVWFFKSRLPGOE5UM}

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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	2026-05-18T02:45:48.842249Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ac16b7df6c932d5b14aa9456f3389da336ca5b434e83ea8813485d5248123f65

Aliases

arxiv: 1204.0833 · arxiv_version: 1204.0833v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1204.0833 · pith_short_12: VQLLPX3MSMWV · pith_short_16: VQLLPX3MSMWVWFFK · pith_short_8: VQLLPX3M

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/VQLLPX3MSMWVWFFKSRLPGOE5UM \
  | 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: ac16b7df6c932d5b14aa9456f3389da336ca5b434e83ea8813485d5248123f65

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8c827c4956ee14c1d938ab230db4f9d706cad579fcfe4a296c391a566a183ea7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.FL",
    "submitted_at": "2012-04-03T23:29:49Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "34f61ff7535c3961b30508f3120a367049b33c1e8c90c68cd44073ef76bf09ee"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1204.0833",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}