Pith Number

pith:Z67S7TGG

pith:2015:Z67S7TGGC7OBRY7KGTLCVX3WQX

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Time to Quantify Falsifiability

Ilya Nemenman

arxiv:1506.00914 v1 · 2015-06-02 · physics.hist-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{Z67S7TGGC7OBRY7KGTLCVX3WQX}

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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	2026-05-18T01:59:34.135532Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

cfbf2fccc617dc18e3ea34d62adf7685d2b0f99e1811712af5ac14c238c18100

Aliases

arxiv: 1506.00914 · arxiv_version: 1506.00914v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1506.00914 · pith_short_12: Z67S7TGGC7OB · pith_short_16: Z67S7TGGC7OBRY7K · pith_short_8: Z67S7TGG

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/Z67S7TGGC7OBRY7KGTLCVX3WQX \
  | 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: cfbf2fccc617dc18e3ea34d62adf7685d2b0f99e1811712af5ac14c238c18100

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "53b281860d4c6cd5fd435b0c3a8f9ebcb1c56b273a8a898b57aaa60cf077c2ff",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.hist-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2015-06-02T15:09:14Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6e4f6cc73ed9db405adc5c32c6290b7533abdcc6c1a2a2923342c5eb591474b2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1506.00914",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}