Pith Number

pith:EMPOU5U7

pith:2016:EMPOU5U7H5GHNQ3THDFZF62LCB

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Parallel multiple selection by regular sampling

Krzysztof Nowicki

arxiv:1611.05549 v2 · 2016-11-17 · cs.DC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{EMPOU5U7H5GHNQ3THDFZF62LCB}

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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	2026-05-18T00:57:43.588119Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

231eea769f3f4c76c37338cb92fb4b10642c4f9efacf030d00bf1e7492a9bd17

Aliases

arxiv: 1611.05549 · arxiv_version: 1611.05549v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1611.05549 · pith_short_12: EMPOU5U7H5GH · pith_short_16: EMPOU5U7H5GHNQ3T · pith_short_8: EMPOU5U7

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/EMPOU5U7H5GHNQ3THDFZF62LCB \
  | 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: 231eea769f3f4c76c37338cb92fb4b10642c4f9efacf030d00bf1e7492a9bd17

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b8d033cb4efb2a81adb0cdc8c406e6eeafe105945e086f0db07a21803b4f1fdc",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2016-11-17T03:23:38Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "20dd51c8c9e0f6943266cc16bde2a898d32d62ccaed910989805f0fdbfe67bde"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1611.05549",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}