Pith Number

pith:JO5SPMVK

pith:2002:JO5SPMVKOHRHYMQOJ3IHG2RXKO

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Approximate Data Structures with Applications

Jeff Vitter, Neal Young, Yossi Matias

arxiv:cs/0205010 v1 · 2002-05-10 · cs.DS · cs.CC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{JO5SPMVKOHRHYMQOJ3IHG2RXKO}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T01:59:54.033059Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4bbb27b2aa71e27c320e4ed0736a37539af1ed9910714f0f3b845dcb35f27487

Aliases

arxiv: cs/0205010 · arxiv_version: cs/0205010v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.cs/0205010 · pith_short_12: JO5SPMVKOHRH · pith_short_16: JO5SPMVKOHRHYMQO · pith_short_8: JO5SPMVK

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/JO5SPMVKOHRHYMQOJ3IHG2RXKO \
  | 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: 4bbb27b2aa71e27c320e4ed0736a37539af1ed9910714f0f3b845dcb35f27487

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a69d3ae3820c6532d9c717f62b813cddaf584a4e6a2143e3cf7ea21ddee87ac1",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CC"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2002-05-10T01:12:18Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8e4205974a4be50836c316492bd2a691fe9f52983c3d02d17c0c28b99b6baaf0"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "cs/0205010",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}