Pith Number

pith:V77GZALL

pith:2014:V77GZALLKZHYEGK4MADGVSUFBK

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

How to Scale Exponential Backoff

Jeremy T. Fineman, Maxwell Young, Michael A. Bender, Seth Gilbert

arxiv:1402.5207 v4 · 2014-02-21 · cs.DC · cs.NI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{V77GZALLKZHYEGK4MADGVSUFBK}

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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	2026-05-18T01:37:02.390614Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

affe6c816b564f82195c60066aca850a9cfa0344e26c5ab11d0828960b047b70

Aliases

arxiv: 1402.5207 · arxiv_version: 1402.5207v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1402.5207 · pith_short_12: V77GZALLKZHY · pith_short_16: V77GZALLKZHYEGK4 · pith_short_8: V77GZALL

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/V77GZALLKZHYEGK4MADGVSUFBK \
  | 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: affe6c816b564f82195c60066aca850a9cfa0344e26c5ab11d0828960b047b70

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f5ad2f0e520e3d9eb0920775d1933d2aedcac2704e97e6b964a0962c7d6dccca",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.NI"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2014-02-21T05:47:48Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5269db8cad95f58e685963b5f766608b7ff076f3fcb63e532ceb7c3d2b3a84a2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1402.5207",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}