Pith Number

pith:WH3SSVAU

pith:2017:WH3SSVAUDBTDH6ULQEDPLOWUUQ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A Layperson Introduction to the Quantum Approach to Humor

Kirsty Kitto, Liane Gabora, Samantha Thomson

arxiv:1704.04818 v2 · 2017-04-16 · q-bio.NC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WH3SSVAUDBTDH6ULQEDPLOWUUQ}

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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	2026-05-17T23:51:20.125713Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b1f7295414186633fa8b8106f5bad4a42824b7250697538648f8697e22ae956a

Aliases

arxiv: 1704.04818 · arxiv_version: 1704.04818v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1704.04818 · pith_short_12: WH3SSVAUDBTD · pith_short_16: WH3SSVAUDBTDH6UL · pith_short_8: WH3SSVAU

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/WH3SSVAUDBTDH6ULQEDPLOWUUQ \
  | 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: b1f7295414186633fa8b8106f5bad4a42824b7250697538648f8697e22ae956a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1b0fb6c85c9d5453d606aafc65e0b19ddb146b5f97cddf3aca545a1ae7065594",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.NC",
    "submitted_at": "2017-04-16T20:52:41Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "42d6ce1b4831ea81699f6aee3a41261fd2ce365526c005e55d5ba7f5781656ab"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1704.04818",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}