Pith Number

pith:A3W3WLYV

pith:2016:A3W3WLYVZ4E4BAIPDLPUYGWP7D

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Metric 1-median selection with fewer queries

Ching-Lueh Chang

arxiv:1612.08654 v2 · 2016-12-27 · cs.DS

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{A3W3WLYVZ4E4BAIPDLPUYGWP7D}

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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	2026-05-18T00:09:36.750534Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

06edbb2f15cf09c0810f1adf4c1acff8f676c86c8f9b44942ae7256c06a506e6

Aliases

arxiv: 1612.08654 · arxiv_version: 1612.08654v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1612.08654 · pith_short_12: A3W3WLYVZ4E4 · pith_short_16: A3W3WLYVZ4E4BAIP · pith_short_8: A3W3WLYV

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/A3W3WLYVZ4E4BAIPDLPUYGWP7D \
  | 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: 06edbb2f15cf09c0810f1adf4c1acff8f676c86c8f9b44942ae7256c06a506e6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "84a64b0b6faf45221b45c951f6fa14c03ddf1cfdfbd1b2595a61b743deb413da",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2016-12-27T15:19:59Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "16df6240998d56ea1ee6adc1e35d1bc8160db2465422a9cfbce3d4b1ca4ae7a7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1612.08654",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}