Pith Number

pith:2W2XGJKO

pith:2012:2W2XGJKORCWVP5LRI3HRHK2P74

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On the strengths of the self-updating process clustering algorithm

Shang-Ying Shiu, Ting-Li Chen

arxiv:1201.1979 v4 · 2012-01-10 · stat.ME

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{2W2XGJKORCWVP5LRI3HRHK2P74}

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:35:01.814579Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d5b573254e88ad57f57146cf13ab4fff2220e94dc52e51629c128375e91e8d8c

Aliases

arxiv: 1201.1979 · arxiv_version: 1201.1979v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1201.1979 · pith_short_12: 2W2XGJKORCWV · pith_short_16: 2W2XGJKORCWVP5LR · pith_short_8: 2W2XGJKO

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/2W2XGJKORCWVP5LRI3HRHK2P74 \
  | 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: d5b573254e88ad57f57146cf13ab4fff2220e94dc52e51629c128375e91e8d8c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6c3c7c8291df772e9f52da77fc7bc62e397b78e1b1b72eafcfed04fdc259ec64",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ME",
    "submitted_at": "2012-01-10T07:47:02Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f35aba602905600de24bc273f7061ef623e8f058978728d271c98466ec1ece0a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1201.1979",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}