Pith Number

pith:XC62IKDN

pith:2017:XC62IKDNMRBYPT5MYJCC3PZXCZ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

How long is a piece of string? An exploration of multi-winner approval voting and ballot-length restrictions

Barton E. Lee

arxiv:1711.05092 v1 · 2017-11-14 · cs.GT · cs.MA

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XC62IKDNMRBYPT5MYJCC3PZXCZ}

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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	2026-05-18T00:30:34.770372Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b8bda4286d644387cfacc2442dbf37166780436bd9ad0c1dae158505b89b1ba6

Aliases

arxiv: 1711.05092 · arxiv_version: 1711.05092v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1711.05092 · pith_short_12: XC62IKDNMRBY · pith_short_16: XC62IKDNMRBYPT5M · pith_short_8: XC62IKDN

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/XC62IKDNMRBYPT5MYJCC3PZXCZ \
  | 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: b8bda4286d644387cfacc2442dbf37166780436bd9ad0c1dae158505b89b1ba6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7b68652ccd82b7fe602b9a4e4ba0370f74059dc4155ce553e19c96ff16a21f84",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.MA"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.GT",
    "submitted_at": "2017-11-14T14:12:57Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a0fab78efd41eeb0a34741de3c39e76b1bff531f01c3c80ea22c6e6b10c0aa56"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1711.05092",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}