Pith Number

pith:34XKLASE

pith:2018:34XKLASETSUAQGGUVCMILGYH6I

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The Query Complexity of a Permutation-Based Variant of Mastermind

Benjamin Doerr, Carola Doerr, Kasper Green Larsen, Kurt Mehlhorn, Manindra Agrawal, Peyman Afshani

arxiv:1812.08480 v1 · 2018-12-20 · cs.DS · cs.NE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{34XKLASETSUAQGGUVCMILGYH6I}

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-17T23:57:49.860724Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

df2ea582449ca80818d4a898859b07f23540bfbe0a833f8d15b38981a33889c4

Aliases

arxiv: 1812.08480 · arxiv_version: 1812.08480v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1812.08480 · pith_short_12: 34XKLASETSUA · pith_short_16: 34XKLASETSUAQGGU · pith_short_8: 34XKLASE

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/34XKLASETSUAQGGUVCMILGYH6I \
  | 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: df2ea582449ca80818d4a898859b07f23540bfbe0a833f8d15b38981a33889c4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "25010a68cb189df13a27f74936c6573c0805a53ab274bdb7d162929c724dbe9a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.NE"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2018-12-20T11:00:59Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e1d95e221ccf1c8f8e46f0efbad767674b2b615845de876fc9641723d11a1dc5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1812.08480",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}