Pith Number

pith:WNT5I6MZ

pith:2018:WNT5I6MZTNYGQ6N6Y7ZWMQ7MFR

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The entropy of lies: playing twenty questions with a liar

Daniel Kane, Shay Moran, Yuval Dagan, Yuval Filmus

arxiv:1811.02177 v1 · 2018-11-06 · cs.DS · cs.DM · math.CO

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WNT5I6MZTNYGQ6N6Y7ZWMQ7MFR}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:01:24.884128Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b367d479999b706879bec7f36643ec2c4f2e17a355329c80801cf168e2e3078a

Aliases

arxiv: 1811.02177 · arxiv_version: 1811.02177v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1811.02177 · pith_short_12: WNT5I6MZTNYG · pith_short_16: WNT5I6MZTNYGQ6N6 · pith_short_8: WNT5I6MZ

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/WNT5I6MZTNYGQ6N6Y7ZWMQ7MFR \
  | 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: b367d479999b706879bec7f36643ec2c4f2e17a355329c80801cf168e2e3078a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "82a86fd91633180e9d2b80cf364f1ef67d6cb3bcf7e68b9caed2daf72ed7aa46",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DM",
      "math.CO"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2018-11-06T06:05:14Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "73273e73fb166c62cb24926af18104bdedbe37a2ea2040dea6f1d7b5acaf32f5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1811.02177",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}