Pith Number

pith:4AFV4BXV

pith:2014:4AFV4BXVSO7BZEKLMENCHKCMBH

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Efficient Maximum-Likelihood Decoding of Linear Block Codes on Binary Memoryless Channels

Eirik Rosnes, Michael Helmling, Stefan Ruzika, Stefan Scholl

arxiv:1403.4118 v2 · 2014-03-17 · cs.IT · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4AFV4BXVSO7BZEKLMENCHKCMBH}

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First computed	2026-05-18T02:53:07.087756Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e00b5e06f593be1c914b611a23a84c09c6ddd4b33807bce8f59e18e556ff356d

Aliases

arxiv: 1403.4118 · arxiv_version: 1403.4118v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1403.4118 · pith_short_12: 4AFV4BXVSO7B · pith_short_16: 4AFV4BXVSO7BZEKL · pith_short_8: 4AFV4BXV

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/4AFV4BXVSO7BZEKLMENCHKCMBH \
  | 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: e00b5e06f593be1c914b611a23a84c09c6ddd4b33807bce8f59e18e556ff356d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "70a2f7427f4b2d384dfa3a6fa5ab14ad23c8020fdf78c13eb4c188025ca41c4d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2014-03-17T14:55:42Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d917a583a8c8ec3e5e6de3caed8e7c091ddfd29c0039c3b56e48449f97c0a876"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1403.4118",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}