Pith Number

pith:YVTX7MDX

pith:2011:YVTX7MDXERNX7MZBQHPFWWVRVM

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A Call to Arms: Revisiting Database Design

Antonio Badia, Daniel Lemire

arxiv:1105.6001 v4 · 2011-05-30 · cs.DB

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YVTX7MDXERNX7MZBQHPFWWVRVM}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T03:44:15.612095Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c5677fb077245b7fb32181de5b5ab1ab3b65cef3b8f703c87f2a5b920d3c2ac4

Aliases

arxiv: 1105.6001 · arxiv_version: 1105.6001v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1105.6001 · pith_short_12: YVTX7MDXERNX · pith_short_16: YVTX7MDXERNX7MZB · pith_short_8: YVTX7MDX

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/YVTX7MDXERNX7MZBQHPFWWVRVM \
  | 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: c5677fb077245b7fb32181de5b5ab1ab3b65cef3b8f703c87f2a5b920d3c2ac4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "53d672c330af64ca97982642e8f65281147c78aab48b17d8d8f81f6e20a1bec3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DB",
    "submitted_at": "2011-05-30T14:07:10Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d9351adc8963390289a4a946be72f8d2e87b6a2ceb52e2d03a09be6c2eb2437b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1105.6001",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}