Pith Number

pith:YDDDUYMB

pith:2017:YDDDUYMBYVLTGW4YHSVGYWV2FL

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Server, server in the cloud. Who is the fairest in the crowd?

Amol Salunkhe, Marc B\"ohlen, Varun Chandola

arxiv:1711.08801 v1 · 2017-11-23 · cs.CY

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YDDDUYMBYVLTGW4YHSVGYWV2FL}

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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	2026-05-18T00:29:44.051836Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c0c63a6181c557335b983caa6c5aba2aff15b58135428ef6fb1cb58ff5fee791

Aliases

arxiv: 1711.08801 · arxiv_version: 1711.08801v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1711.08801 · pith_short_12: YDDDUYMBYVLT · pith_short_16: YDDDUYMBYVLTGW4Y · pith_short_8: YDDDUYMB

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/YDDDUYMBYVLTGW4YHSVGYWV2FL \
  | 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: c0c63a6181c557335b983caa6c5aba2aff15b58135428ef6fb1cb58ff5fee791

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5b2d5eeb3274386b0fc47f73cfce831ea54f4fa13960174bd9682172cc9f57f6",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CY",
    "submitted_at": "2017-11-23T18:36:27Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f73b793b4c8866f24bc242293c5c454f93a3ac288be5a6ca33f0460a5604d67f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1711.08801",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}