Pith Number

pith:R7MJV2R5

pith:2017:R7MJV2R53LFZ6HE76XPEVZHBAK

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Solving Packing and Covering LPs in $\tilde{O}(\frac{1}{\epsilon^2})$ Distributed Iterations with a Single Algorithm and Simpler Analysis

Jelena Diakonikolas, Lorenzo Orecchia

arxiv:1710.09002 v1 · 2017-10-24 · cs.DS

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{R7MJV2R53LFZ6HE76XPEVZHBAK}

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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	2026-05-18T00:32:00.592805Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8fd89aea3ddacb9f1c9ff5de4ae4e102afe8e3796b7a0fef2caaf467762d7891

Aliases

arxiv: 1710.09002 · arxiv_version: 1710.09002v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1710.09002 · pith_short_12: R7MJV2R53LFZ · pith_short_16: R7MJV2R53LFZ6HE7 · pith_short_8: R7MJV2R5

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/R7MJV2R53LFZ6HE76XPEVZHBAK \
  | 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: 8fd89aea3ddacb9f1c9ff5de4ae4e102afe8e3796b7a0fef2caaf467762d7891

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1597be884c67723a02e9c22c395748693792d7b6fac6ab78636523b48c28b9aa",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2017-10-24T21:54:31Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d693dd9a30db3b57d2a8f4c9f24512e1f85ca5fe5a969ca6d42c77a96e707788"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1710.09002",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}