Pith Number

pith:P3NVAVFE

pith:2011:P3NVAVFEBNDPMU67VXODNZL52R

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Computing on Binary Strings

Chen Yuan, Peng Zhang, Tian-Ming Bu

arxiv:1112.0278 v2 · 2011-12-01 · cs.DS

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{P3NVAVFEBNDPMU67VXODNZL52R}

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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	2026-05-18T04:05:26.723708Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7edb5054a40b46f653dfaddc36e57dd446a8743529ff5a1f7ffc1103136c94ee

Aliases

arxiv: 1112.0278 · arxiv_version: 1112.0278v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1112.0278 · pith_short_12: P3NVAVFEBNDP · pith_short_16: P3NVAVFEBNDPMU67 · pith_short_8: P3NVAVFE

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/P3NVAVFEBNDPMU67VXODNZL52R \
  | 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: 7edb5054a40b46f653dfaddc36e57dd446a8743529ff5a1f7ffc1103136c94ee

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8654838a879cb346385a726d430a0cd7a4b21dd8a853ced516c946349abdd5e8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2011-12-01T19:24:16Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3a4b117457a43816535cdd4507127a774ef5ddda7d7537e6f8b876795484e896"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1112.0278",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}