Pith Number

pith:VCB2GBTL

pith:2014:VCB2GBTL6YB7QAUIRQEQ4I4FEU

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

On the Classification of MDS Codes

Denis S. Krotov, Janne I. Kokkala, Patric R. J. \"Osterg{\aa}rd

arxiv:1411.5822 v1 · 2014-11-21 · cs.IT · math.CO · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VCB2GBTL6YB7QAUIRQEQ4I4FEU}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:24:20.265657Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a883a3066bf603f802888c090e23852515b9565a69cd0ff6736fc8e3c3039aed

Aliases

arxiv: 1411.5822 · arxiv_version: 1411.5822v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1411.5822 · pith_short_12: VCB2GBTL6YB7 · pith_short_16: VCB2GBTL6YB7QAUI · pith_short_8: VCB2GBTL

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VCB2GBTL6YB7QAUIRQEQ4I4FEU \
  | 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: a883a3066bf603f802888c090e23852515b9565a69cd0ff6736fc8e3c3039aed

Canonical record JSON

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  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1989faed75dbfcb25a94a9addb62beb84fc3a213efb3f6b86eedbc1c5a2fc3e1",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.CO",
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2014-11-21T10:51:53Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "734f438547624151aee616864fe30399d2c8350fb2064681f3c2a08b9c88cdae"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
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    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}