Pith Number

pith:YGEID4NA

pith:2014:YGEID4NAASAPXAOBMZSDVYQFDY

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Interleaved entropy coders

Fabian Giesen

arxiv:1402.3392 v1 · 2014-02-14 · cs.IT · math.IT

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YGEID4NAASAPXAOBMZSDVYQFDY}

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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	2026-05-18T02:59:05.350569Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c18881f1a00480fb81c166643ae2051e2c5d5b2509c89c640098a81ad5ad729e

Aliases

arxiv: 1402.3392 · arxiv_version: 1402.3392v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1402.3392 · pith_short_12: YGEID4NAASAP · pith_short_16: YGEID4NAASAPXAOB · pith_short_8: YGEID4NA

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/YGEID4NAASAPXAOBMZSDVYQFDY \
  | 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: c18881f1a00480fb81c166643ae2051e2c5d5b2509c89c640098a81ad5ad729e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "91853c88f137c148c0c4e338c7dee70da344971fc3ad2df3629b4c3daea8b945",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2014-02-14T07:52:50Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2018e2050eca72ada8b2361bcddb99a7570b83d5fb587c8c40da2a3c093f3b20"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1402.3392",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}