Pith Number

pith:XNPXIMZN

pith:2017:XNPXIMZNJYUIHFSMHIAYVRXMXV

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Whiz: A Fast and Flexible Data Analytics System

Aditya Akella, Arjun Singhvi, Raajay Viswanathan, Robert Grandl

arxiv:1703.10272 v5 · 2017-03-29 · cs.DC

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

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	2026-05-17T23:42:49.231750Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bb5f74332d4e2883964c3a018ac6ecbd5c599bbf73fe9e31f9f736b0cc64e29b

Aliases

arxiv: 1703.10272 · arxiv_version: 1703.10272v5 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1703.10272 · pith_short_12: XNPXIMZNJYUI · pith_short_16: XNPXIMZNJYUIHFSM · pith_short_8: XNPXIMZN

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/XNPXIMZNJYUIHFSMHIAYVRXMXV \
  | 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: bb5f74332d4e2883964c3a018ac6ecbd5c599bbf73fe9e31f9f736b0cc64e29b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "25d2db981ece20b39ff57e30bce32555a53559c7eddf3fdaa71634eea2bef2b2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2017-03-29T23:45:16Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9f09c3d0556f7fff147617c29fb391df8c06017f4a557e1bd4c29d3c2e6dbefb"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1703.10272",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 5
  }
}