Pith Number

pith:ZBSXA6S3

pith:2012:ZBSXA6S32WTVWKBDJFLGWDZSZQ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Full randomness from arbitrarily deterministic events

Antonio Acin, Chirag Dhara, Gonzalo de la Torre, Leandro Aolita, Lluis Masanes, Rodrigo Gallego

arxiv:1210.6514 v1 · 2012-10-24 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZBSXA6S32WTVWKBDJFLGWDZSZQ}

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Record completeness

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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.

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Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T01:53:43.785775Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c865707a5bd5a75b282349566b0f32cc3836642656003a54673b19b23371f7bf

Aliases

arxiv: 1210.6514 · arxiv_version: 1210.6514v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1210.6514 · pith_short_12: ZBSXA6S32WTV · pith_short_16: ZBSXA6S32WTVWKBD · pith_short_8: ZBSXA6S3

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/ZBSXA6S32WTVWKBDJFLGWDZSZQ \
  | 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: c865707a5bd5a75b282349566b0f32cc3836642656003a54673b19b23371f7bf

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f16039c143ee37259c24a5ab24f46d1e297ceb6b9cbe40dca388f49931fc15b1",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2012-10-24T12:55:54Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "aa8530f7005a0ab63f1776fedfe96fffc0ae09867872c6b52562511263106357"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1210.6514",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}