Pith Number

pith:3SR7UNBK

pith:2014:3SR7UNBKAKO6IYU2GOJLOFVLJA

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Power of Two Choices in Distributed Voting

Colin Cooper, Robert Els\"asser, Tomasz Radzik

arxiv:1404.7479 v1 · 2014-04-29 · cs.DS

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3SR7UNBKAKO6IYU2GOJLOFVLJA}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-05-18T01:00:46.401939Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

dca3fa342a029de4629a3392b716ab4822cc320fc4882a19907d4313d729d5df

Aliases

arxiv: 1404.7479 · arxiv_version: 1404.7479v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1404.7479 · pith_short_12: 3SR7UNBKAKO6 · pith_short_16: 3SR7UNBKAKO6IYU2 · pith_short_8: 3SR7UNBK

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/3SR7UNBKAKO6IYU2GOJLOFVLJA \
  | 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: dca3fa342a029de4629a3392b716ab4822cc320fc4882a19907d4313d729d5df

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "48e3a4a0fb029abd8c4be74e7081a94f1e0497c1cd68aaa2fa5ba0b3b48daa88",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2014-04-29T19:46:19Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "094d881d59248693061319de82c16dfe34ef778ab1e46908fd4dffdf86847096"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1404.7479",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}