Pith Number

pith:ZMDLMQT5

pith:2017:ZMDLMQT5AK356AX2PUCNRIDOND

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Information vs. Uncertainty as the Foundation for a Science of Environmental Modeling

Grey Nearing, Hoshin Gupta

arxiv:1704.07512 v1 · 2017-04-25 · stat.OT

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZMDLMQT5AK356AX2PUCNRIDOND}

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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	2026-05-18T00:45:37.839275Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

cb06b6427d02b7df02fa7d04d8a06e68e1ad561705d5649b3a992e9fd60511ef

Aliases

arxiv: 1704.07512 · arxiv_version: 1704.07512v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1704.07512 · pith_short_12: ZMDLMQT5AK35 · pith_short_16: ZMDLMQT5AK356AX2 · pith_short_8: ZMDLMQT5

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/ZMDLMQT5AK356AX2PUCNRIDOND \
  | 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: cb06b6427d02b7df02fa7d04d8a06e68e1ad561705d5649b3a992e9fd60511ef

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "793ab5cbdfb8849054b4706506dacd51a91c81f08c2b82b0892219bc1f808742",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.OT",
    "submitted_at": "2017-04-25T01:55:24Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a3dc7cba88a6aed309ea3a28bf951306c6426c748cf9986d73fba0ce931cdc3a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1704.07512",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}