Pith Number

pith:XKHRLIYY

pith:2018:XKHRLIYYKRBK6NSSCZD34E4T4E

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The Historical Significance of Textual Distances

Ted Underwood

arxiv:1807.00181 v1 · 2018-06-30 · cs.CL · cs.CY · cs.DL

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XKHRLIYYKRBK6NSSCZD34E4T4E}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications 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	2026-05-18T00:11:55.762155Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ba8f15a3185442af36521647be1393e1354a6e2143e3a9fef2167dd8040e201f

Aliases

arxiv: 1807.00181 · arxiv_version: 1807.00181v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1807.00181 · pith_short_12: XKHRLIYYKRBK · pith_short_16: XKHRLIYYKRBK6NSS · pith_short_8: XKHRLIYY

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/XKHRLIYYKRBK6NSSCZD34E4T4E \
  | 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: ba8f15a3185442af36521647be1393e1354a6e2143e3a9fef2167dd8040e201f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8261aa56791f56e7dd4e81b9643d4108c4dbf47d33c9a54e70cce4a3619d718f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CY",
      "cs.DL"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2018-06-30T14:06:54Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ceb5b1cb42dc88968536176cf70bbf155e4b2eda7c8ae57ec5cbcd4481f9e7c2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1807.00181",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}