Pith Number

pith:Z2BWVMO3

pith:2014:Z2BWVMO3W2EHSBYEUUXUNPDSFI

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Sequential Complexity as a Descriptor for Musical Similarity

Matthias Mauch, Peter Foster, Simon Dixon

arxiv:1402.6926 v3 · 2014-02-27 · cs.IR · cs.LG · cs.SD

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{Z2BWVMO3W2EHSBYEUUXUNPDSFI}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-05-18T02:41:41.759606Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ce836ab1dbb688790704a52f46bc722a1babf2cef649221dfce5175dc59b8694

Aliases

arxiv: 1402.6926 · arxiv_version: 1402.6926v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1402.6926 · pith_short_12: Z2BWVMO3W2EH · pith_short_16: Z2BWVMO3W2EHSBYE · pith_short_8: Z2BWVMO3

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/Z2BWVMO3W2EHSBYEUUXUNPDSFI \
  | 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: ce836ab1dbb688790704a52f46bc722a1babf2cef649221dfce5175dc59b8694

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "476cfc27b2352c424faed760230f3609d9955d512a8e2e962e20b76e1bd01d3d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG",
      "cs.SD"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IR",
    "submitted_at": "2014-02-27T14:51:48Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3e872357a0eb40297b6975d6d0e1d0bb9b8277047d0f2382f977d7e77989961e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1402.6926",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}