Pith Number

pith:WVB6CNG6

pith:2015:WVB6CNG6KS3JEDI2WS3YP5BZ3C

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

On the Relative Usefulness of Fireballs

Beniamino Accattoli, Claudio Sacerdoti Coen

arxiv:1505.03791 v1 · 2015-05-14 · cs.LO

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WVB6CNG6KS3JEDI2WS3YP5BZ3C}

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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	2026-05-18T02:09:53.053459Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b543e134de54b6920d1ab4b787f439d8b4ff1bb1b76391d15598b623c00bec74

Aliases

arxiv: 1505.03791 · arxiv_version: 1505.03791v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1505.03791 · pith_short_12: WVB6CNG6KS3J · pith_short_16: WVB6CNG6KS3JEDI2 · pith_short_8: WVB6CNG6

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/WVB6CNG6KS3JEDI2WS3YP5BZ3C \
  | 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: b543e134de54b6920d1ab4b787f439d8b4ff1bb1b76391d15598b623c00bec74

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1748b4ccf1a1e50a6a623fd9f2837a1d8d9014176bc4cb68c1d07849d4b4f05e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LO",
    "submitted_at": "2015-05-14T16:39:51Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5cbeca922f9b3f6dfe2a54a765611a5906a5de811d83f0505d4b4e0085c040ba"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1505.03791",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}