Pith Number

pith:W3CSV74U

pith:2019:W3CSV74U5OM7WL4FX5W5AEEX3V

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Following wrong suggestions: self-blame in human and computer scenarios

Andrea Beretta, Bruno Lepri, Massimo Zancanaro

arxiv:1907.00850 v1 · 2019-07-01 · cs.CY

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{W3CSV74U5OM7WL4FX5W5AEEX3V}

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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	2026-05-17T23:41:47.881777Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b6c52aff94eb99fb2f85bf6dd01097dd495edea2f67c6f7d3c1ccc1ff27598f4

Aliases

arxiv: 1907.00850 · arxiv_version: 1907.00850v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1907.00850 · pith_short_12: W3CSV74U5OM7 · pith_short_16: W3CSV74U5OM7WL4F · pith_short_8: W3CSV74U

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/W3CSV74U5OM7WL4FX5W5AEEX3V \
  | 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: b6c52aff94eb99fb2f85bf6dd01097dd495edea2f67c6f7d3c1ccc1ff27598f4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d7d5c745a887afadf0bf0264a1176b38922afb7949d7638a44b25ffe0e3d8b05",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CY",
    "submitted_at": "2019-07-01T15:17:03Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3735de0f7665dafd644139833bde306a813d7f43297dd5163bf963e83426d50a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1907.00850",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}