Pith Number

pith:VXBVOYOJ

pith:2017:VXBVOYOJG4PDGMEFHA5HLDAOUH

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Computing majority with low-fan-in majority queries

Gleb Posobin

arxiv:1711.10176 v1 · 2017-11-28 · cs.CC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VXBVOYOJG4PDGMEFHA5HLDAOUH}

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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	2026-05-18T00:29:23.102683Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

adc35761c9371e333085383a758c0ea1ecd52def7df9bfa8389b66a2315938eb

Aliases

arxiv: 1711.10176 · arxiv_version: 1711.10176v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1711.10176 · pith_short_12: VXBVOYOJG4PD · pith_short_16: VXBVOYOJG4PDGMEF · pith_short_8: VXBVOYOJ

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/VXBVOYOJG4PDGMEFHA5HLDAOUH \
  | 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: adc35761c9371e333085383a758c0ea1ecd52def7df9bfa8389b66a2315938eb

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c5d1b99cf8709c6bffeabaf1460b61bc42402ff7d154d54f8ea7ad752fc960ec",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CC",
    "submitted_at": "2017-11-28T08:38:54Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "be2331aaac4a16cf57fca154ddc86a6cbcec4a8b0f084e4f2cae8022ec604535"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1711.10176",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}