Pith Number

pith:ZQFLTZMD

pith:2018:ZQFLTZMDZEYFAETS4LTCMWVLTS

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Noise-based logic gates by operations on the reference system

Laszlo B. Kish, Walter Daugherity

arxiv:1803.09671 v2 · 2018-03-26 · cs.ET

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZQFLTZMDZEYFAETS4LTCMWVLTS}

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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	2026-05-18T00:05:31.710018Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

cc0ab9e583c930501272e2e6265aab9cbd151af1caa648343a52ffdb95e29fa8

Aliases

arxiv: 1803.09671 · arxiv_version: 1803.09671v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1803.09671 · pith_short_12: ZQFLTZMDZEYF · pith_short_16: ZQFLTZMDZEYFAETS · pith_short_8: ZQFLTZMD

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/ZQFLTZMDZEYFAETS4LTCMWVLTS \
  | 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: cc0ab9e583c930501272e2e6265aab9cbd151af1caa648343a52ffdb95e29fa8

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7c0eeafb60809eb57a4d2a2f68b961f95414454894f9e0f0cc40ddccc46da417",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.ET",
    "submitted_at": "2018-03-26T15:38:09Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0b5a49bc287ea61e5c4c74596c4e04bbba6a73c192d1144a98af498928825db5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1803.09671",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}