Pith Number

pith:WS6Y7NUO

pith:1998:WS6Y7NUOQMM5UIFB5YMBWNKSNF

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Error Characteristics of Fiber Distributed Data Interface (FDDI)

R. Jain

arxiv:cs/9809090 v1 · 1998-09-24 · cs.NI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WS6Y7NUOQMM5UIFB5YMBWNKSNF}

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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	2026-05-18T00:58:05.046817Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b4bd8fb68e8319da20a1ee181b355269565b4cc6770e01f337482b194344b7d3

Aliases

arxiv: cs/9809090 · arxiv_version: cs/9809090v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.cs/9809090 · pith_short_12: WS6Y7NUOQMM5 · pith_short_16: WS6Y7NUOQMM5UIFB · pith_short_8: WS6Y7NUO

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/WS6Y7NUOQMM5UIFB5YMBWNKSNF \
  | 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: b4bd8fb68e8319da20a1ee181b355269565b4cc6770e01f337482b194344b7d3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "212d8dd50346a54916c69ae3d4742bd25f55fc4e5cb50c60ee6dc267ca2848cb",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "cs.NI",
    "submitted_at": "1998-09-24T04:54:27Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "863a983170995141a96bd74a67c39f2afdaa4e998ab7fa88906110a4b6dc5da8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "cs/9809090",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}