Pith Number

pith:C333SRON

pith:2018:C333SRONCZRZYBBZSC2J62ILQI

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Definite Sums as Solutions of Linear Recurrences With Polynomial Coefficients

Marko Petkov\v{s}ek

arxiv:1804.02964 v1 · 2018-04-09 · cs.SC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{C333SRONCZRZYBBZSC2J62ILQI}

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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	2026-05-18T00:18:57.825522Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

16f7b945cd16639c043990b49f690b8237c671985dda8dff25f3c3001c5ba586

Aliases

arxiv: 1804.02964 · arxiv_version: 1804.02964v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1804.02964 · pith_short_12: C333SRONCZRZ · pith_short_16: C333SRONCZRZYBBZ · pith_short_8: C333SRON

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/C333SRONCZRZYBBZSC2J62ILQI \
  | 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: 16f7b945cd16639c043990b49f690b8237c671985dda8dff25f3c3001c5ba586

Canonical record JSON

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  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8563d5d205dc4358c59f5479319ac9410ebd1cf6e4ddf0c2e34a7a6b3b324b6b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SC",
    "submitted_at": "2018-04-09T13:17:15Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "89d60043e15b6294d86cd614cde20dcf32e8af3904242a129a4026bac22538cb"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1804.02964",
    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}