Pith Number

pith:XDO5DE4Q

pith:2012:XDO5DE4Q5SNJR6NO7QV65DGPQH

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Noise based logic: why noise? A comparative study of the necessity of randomness out of orthogonality

He Wen, Laszlo B. Kish

arxiv:1204.2545 v4 · 2012-04-11 · cs.OH · cs.ET

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XDO5DE4Q5SNJR6NO7QV65DGPQH}

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4 Citations open

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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	2026-05-18T03:37:19.031437Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b8ddd19390ec9a98f9aefc2bee8ccf81e9631e3639f01c55644d7a0d0f4c0787

Aliases

arxiv: 1204.2545 · arxiv_version: 1204.2545v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1204.2545 · pith_short_12: XDO5DE4Q5SNJ · pith_short_16: XDO5DE4Q5SNJR6NO · pith_short_8: XDO5DE4Q

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/XDO5DE4Q5SNJR6NO7QV65DGPQH \
  | 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: b8ddd19390ec9a98f9aefc2bee8ccf81e9631e3639f01c55644d7a0d0f4c0787

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e343fd6c68bd6909f6a715f478810c0890878ce5f9f05de0c1796bed12a982d6",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.ET"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.OH",
    "submitted_at": "2012-04-11T15:10:17Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8d95161222bf3d6160c45dab6c59d5eb4045d7200de4e8e0228b68f17460adc0"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1204.2545",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}