Pith Number

pith:372M5DLL

pith:2012:372M5DLLZD6MRN27FB4EAEMQ57

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Lossy Compression of Quality Values via Rate Distortion Theory

Dinesh Bharadia, Himanshu Asnani, Idoia Ochoa, Itai Sharon, Mainak Chowdhury, Tsachy Weissman

arxiv:1207.5184 v1 · 2012-07-21 · q-bio.GN · cs.IT · math.IT · q-bio.QM

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First computed	2026-05-18T03:50:24.233580Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

dff4ce8d6bc8fcc8b75f2878401190efc0cd42b173b5df5c2d4b930a4d2191b3

Aliases

arxiv: 1207.5184 · arxiv_version: 1207.5184v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1207.5184 · pith_short_12: 372M5DLLZD6M · pith_short_16: 372M5DLLZD6MRN27 · pith_short_8: 372M5DLL

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/372M5DLLZD6MRN27FB4EAEMQ57 \
  | 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: dff4ce8d6bc8fcc8b75f2878401190efc0cd42b173b5df5c2d4b930a4d2191b3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "fb2a856ccae6fbb3d58601a72c7a28d51338bad3aee77ecbec7f5e14c7e6e953",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.IT",
      "math.IT",
      "q-bio.QM"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.GN",
    "submitted_at": "2012-07-21T21:49:49Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "653316da4dc19b38e349a6f4f9e045e903760c6ce65c39f399c9e04d6436ad43"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1207.5184",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}