Pith Number

pith:ZBKHCBGC

pith:2017:ZBKHCBGCWZSUJ2KAH24F3V43NU

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Human life is unlimited - but short

Dmitrii Zholud, Holger Rootz\'en

arxiv:1708.02184 v1 · 2017-08-07 · stat.AP

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZBKHCBGCWZSUJ2KAH24F3V43NU}

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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	2026-05-18T00:38:31.832532Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c8547104c2b66544e9403eb85dd79b6d3283e3f7b51be44c1464134d217f93ef

Aliases

arxiv: 1708.02184 · arxiv_version: 1708.02184v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1708.02184 · pith_short_12: ZBKHCBGCWZSU · pith_short_16: ZBKHCBGCWZSUJ2KA · pith_short_8: ZBKHCBGC

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/ZBKHCBGCWZSUJ2KAH24F3V43NU \
  | 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: c8547104c2b66544e9403eb85dd79b6d3283e3f7b51be44c1464134d217f93ef

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9e1daec6d9c50effef59b252f8e6324ce2aca3f7054e24f4bb856fde1c8dd960",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.AP",
    "submitted_at": "2017-08-07T16:12:57Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "fc86e6bb3b2f91267a94286693d6ba517cd1393a2fd7cda4c6c71a1c82fefa94"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1708.02184",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}