Pith Number

pith:6LXBFUVN

pith:2017:6LXBFUVN4XWFEYOXUADBOJ4VD7

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Complex Block Floating-Point Format with Box Encoding For Wordlength Reduction in Communication Systems

Alan Gatherer, Brian L. Evans, Yeong Foong Choo

arxiv:1705.05217 v2 · 2017-05-03 · cs.IT · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{6LXBFUVN4XWFEYOXUADBOJ4VD7}

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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	2026-05-18T00:32:01.114454Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f2ee12d2ade5ec5261d7a0061727951fe09db0de0b76e06006c92219512d1075

Aliases

arxiv: 1705.05217 · arxiv_version: 1705.05217v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1705.05217 · pith_short_12: 6LXBFUVN4XWF · pith_short_16: 6LXBFUVN4XWFEYOX · pith_short_8: 6LXBFUVN

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/6LXBFUVN4XWFEYOXUADBOJ4VD7 \
  | 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: f2ee12d2ade5ec5261d7a0061727951fe09db0de0b76e06006c92219512d1075

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "fd16b1df10b07d83ce96940cc3e1033ad3da644fa9741165af7fcaf53c059b30",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2017-05-03T01:49:40Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "efac42ee66f23944cc78054f023507f6252f6dabe4d4bda40d30a1533106fe1b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1705.05217",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}