Pith Number

pith:E6QAGZMU

pith:2012:E6QAGZMULBAFPO322QLHEROLIN

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DEPAS: A Decentralized Probabilistic Algorithm for Auto-Scaling

Bogdan Alexandru Caprarescu, Dana Petcu, Daniel J. Dubois, Elisabetta Di Nitto, Nicolo M. Calcavecchia

arxiv:1202.2509 v1 · 2012-02-12 · cs.DC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{E6QAGZMULBAFPO322QLHEROLIN}

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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	2026-05-18T04:02:26.361990Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

27a0036594584057bb7ad4167245cb435ec90e652d9112b31a2ca1e024cded77

Aliases

arxiv: 1202.2509 · arxiv_version: 1202.2509v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1202.2509 · pith_short_12: E6QAGZMULBAF · pith_short_16: E6QAGZMULBAFPO32 · pith_short_8: E6QAGZMU

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/E6QAGZMULBAFPO322QLHEROLIN \
  | 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: 27a0036594584057bb7ad4167245cb435ec90e652d9112b31a2ca1e024cded77

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "99f7885c113f7f65f2b856e574656f50a8371b3b59d54f93e0a194182320094a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2012-02-12T09:26:40Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "103071258a9d3efdaa4cf8249a0150207b391cabb1fef8163223cb9957b3a78d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1202.2509",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}