Pith Number

pith:4HR5FWDI

pith:2018:4HR5FWDIWX6HOETXW7T6UXFNA4

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

On the Worst-Case Complexity of TimSort

Carine Pivoteau, Cyril Nicaud, Nicolas Auger, Vincent Jug\'e

arxiv:1805.08612 v3 · 2018-05-22 · cs.DS

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4HR5FWDIWX6HOETXW7T6UXFNA4}

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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	2026-05-17T23:41:18.062815Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e1e3d2d868b5fc771277b7e7ea5cad0720f351682c102108115cc353669e0f14

Aliases

arxiv: 1805.08612 · arxiv_version: 1805.08612v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1805.08612 · pith_short_12: 4HR5FWDIWX6H · pith_short_16: 4HR5FWDIWX6HOETX · pith_short_8: 4HR5FWDI

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/4HR5FWDIWX6HOETXW7T6UXFNA4 \
  | 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: e1e3d2d868b5fc771277b7e7ea5cad0720f351682c102108115cc353669e0f14

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "073d048f0377e827c700c23317aa820595a44470fcabb00d03474731477ada31",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2018-05-22T14:27:38Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "83576a11251953f663875240875895b969e5d21682c1cb6ce55cb40d9fbefc6a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1805.08612",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}