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pith:2016:S6CDWYEG2NIKNS5FWCRJPRZDD3
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Counting Zeros in Random Walks on the Integers and Analysis of Optimal Dual-Pivot Quicksort

Clemens Heuberger, Daniel Krenn, Helmut Prodinger, Martin Aum\"uller, Martin Dietzfelbinger

arxiv:1602.04031 v2 · 2016-02-12 · math.CO · cs.DS

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Canonical hash

97843b6086d350a6cba5b0a297c7231ef4e1d84520987bb48cf03f32c7bd2ee5

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arxiv: 1602.04031 · arxiv_version: 1602.04031v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1602.04031 · pith_short_12: S6CDWYEG2NIK · pith_short_16: S6CDWYEG2NIKNS5F · pith_short_8: S6CDWYEG
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curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/S6CDWYEG2NIKNS5FWCRJPRZDD3 \
  | 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: 97843b6086d350a6cba5b0a297c7231ef4e1d84520987bb48cf03f32c7bd2ee5
Canonical record JSON
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