Pith Number

pith:BNW5VU3X

pith:2018:BNW5VU3XCKEXUJVZKHYQOEVDMY

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A scalable method to find the shortest path in a graph with circuits of memristors

Alice Mizrahi, Brian Hoskins, M.D. Stiles, Thomas Marsh

arxiv:1809.04677 v1 · 2018-09-12 · cs.ET

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BNW5VU3XCKEXUJVZKHYQOEVDMY}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-17T23:58:03.853045Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0b6ddad37712897a26b951f10712a366313de157f085d3941d01a4ddf0d43729

Aliases

arxiv: 1809.04677 · arxiv_version: 1809.04677v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1809.04677 · pith_short_12: BNW5VU3XCKEX · pith_short_16: BNW5VU3XCKEXUJVZ · pith_short_8: BNW5VU3X

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/BNW5VU3XCKEXUJVZKHYQOEVDMY \
  | 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: 0b6ddad37712897a26b951f10712a366313de157f085d3941d01a4ddf0d43729

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "70f4f6526759370e69902f3bb8f4ec406be598864bb262cfbba7ff527bf1a8f5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.ET",
    "submitted_at": "2018-09-12T21:11:17Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0e881994b82737e2b0826565416662075c46b072495d1a356aa6629149e5e733"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1809.04677",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}