Pith Number

pith:VSCGPQY5

pith:2017:VSCGPQY5DK46GSGODENZCMW56L

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An improvement of the asymptotic Elias bound for non-binary codes

Krishna Kaipa

arxiv:1705.07785 v3 · 2017-05-22 · cs.IT · math.IT

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\pithnumber{VSCGPQY5DK46GSGODENZCMW56L}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:22:29.237334Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ac8467c31d1ab9e348ce191b9132ddf2c41c0e08771893fe3b2b65132d7f2f85

Aliases

arxiv: 1705.07785 · arxiv_version: 1705.07785v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1705.07785 · pith_short_12: VSCGPQY5DK46 · pith_short_16: VSCGPQY5DK46GSGO · pith_short_8: VSCGPQY5

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VSCGPQY5DK46GSGODENZCMW56L \
  | 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: ac8467c31d1ab9e348ce191b9132ddf2c41c0e08771893fe3b2b65132d7f2f85

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "cfbc05df362f2381157e94a6230427e083578f1d24bcaaab8c4a99b1346f1d65",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2017-05-22T14:55:07Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "54f5e0bfb395456313ad54ac6371d68dc841c3bbd2b888556c19809d9a18b051"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1705.07785",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}