Pith Number

pith:3C5PSIPV

pith:2016:3C5PSIPVJB4JVJ6TQFH7LL2NEX

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Almost Optimal Streaming Algorithms for Coverage Problems

Hossein Esfandiari, MohammadHossein Bateni, Vahab Mirrokni

arxiv:1610.08096 v2 · 2016-10-25 · cs.DS

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3C5PSIPVJB4JVJ6TQFH7LL2NEX}

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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	2026-05-18T00:48:59.789126Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d8baf921f548789aa7d3814ff5af4d25d378f46abf9af47bbd0df6617c386534

Aliases

arxiv: 1610.08096 · arxiv_version: 1610.08096v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1610.08096 · pith_short_12: 3C5PSIPVJB4J · pith_short_16: 3C5PSIPVJB4JVJ6T · pith_short_8: 3C5PSIPV

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/3C5PSIPVJB4JVJ6TQFH7LL2NEX \
  | 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: d8baf921f548789aa7d3814ff5af4d25d378f46abf9af47bbd0df6617c386534

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ed64dd3af4e9697fdbc06fcbf35022efd1bfe734281ef39c8ab72f73210579dc",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2016-10-25T21:12:03Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "844766ba30bc4913c4820c480af7a60312bfe72f88e060238fdd46e943c12bea"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1610.08096",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}