Pith Number

pith:4MZMBU5K

pith:2019:4MZMBU5KSE5YWCNI6D4MSCHLR4

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Quantum-inspired algorithms in practice

Alain Delgado, Bhaskar Roy Bardhan, Juan Miguel Arrazola, Seth Lloyd

arxiv:1905.10415 v3 · 2019-05-24 · quant-ph · cs.DS

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\pithnumber{4MZMBU5KSE5YWCNI6D4MSCHLR4}

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First computed	2026-07-05T01:28:04.120128Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e332c0d3aa913b8b09a8f0f8c908eb8f16ff7b7bfd270602f76e8d40c9b2d1ba

Aliases

arxiv: 1905.10415 · arxiv_version: 1905.10415v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1905.10415 · pith_short_12: 4MZMBU5KSE5Y · pith_short_16: 4MZMBU5KSE5YWCNI · pith_short_8: 4MZMBU5K

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/4MZMBU5KSE5YWCNI6D4MSCHLR4 \
  | 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: e332c0d3aa913b8b09a8f0f8c908eb8f16ff7b7bfd270602f76e8d40c9b2d1ba

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "05bd080b845a75d397a64051c4a71b6ba5071d15f8c1e6daf4b6b6bbaa857d17",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DS"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2019-05-24T19:17:30Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f4511ef8938753be6c5386b7d2931a95b34cf47d5dbb12f035bb37edceef77e9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1905.10415",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}