Pith Number

pith:VZR4QQKH

pith:2022:VZR4QQKHB6IMWW7NKFNHM2T2NP

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A fine-grained, versatile index of remoteness to characterize place-level rurality

Catherine B. Talbot, Dylan S. Connor, Jeremiah J. Nieves, Johannes H. Uhl, Lori M. Hunter, Myron Gutmann, Stefan Leyk

arxiv:2202.08496 v1 · 2022-02-17 · stat.AP

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VZR4QQKHB6IMWW7NKFNHM2T2NP}

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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	2026-07-05T03:57:46.617524Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ae63c841470f90cb5bed515a766a7a6bf81d638760e3ce142e86dc7eb597b717

Aliases

arxiv: 2202.08496 · arxiv_version: 2202.08496v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2202.08496 · pith_short_12: VZR4QQKHB6IM · pith_short_16: VZR4QQKHB6IMWW7N · pith_short_8: VZR4QQKH

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VZR4QQKHB6IMWW7NKFNHM2T2NP \
  | 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: ae63c841470f90cb5bed515a766a7a6bf81d638760e3ce142e86dc7eb597b717

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "dc444d5a64034e0c2f04d0ba4781186c735b90dc7a6eae9b8433a42e0d6034b0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.AP",
    "submitted_at": "2022-02-17T07:59:39Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e13670789dabf127f72c913d8ed9dd6172a6696e194504473a5ea723246f081e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2202.08496",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}