Pith Number

pith:55JXCJD4

pith:2018:55JXCJD47LTI5JCU3CMTJCHPSR

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On the Power-of-d-choices with Least Loaded Server Selection

Benny Van Houdt, Tim Hellemans

arxiv:1802.05420 v1 · 2018-02-15 · cs.PF

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{55JXCJD47LTI5JCU3CMTJCHPSR}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-18T00:23:15.742062Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ef5371247cfae68ea454d8993488ef94794221daefd5ad17813ed68e4da6bea7

Aliases

arxiv: 1802.05420 · arxiv_version: 1802.05420v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1802.05420 · pith_short_12: 55JXCJD47LTI · pith_short_16: 55JXCJD47LTI5JCU · pith_short_8: 55JXCJD4

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/55JXCJD47LTI5JCU3CMTJCHPSR \
  | 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: ef5371247cfae68ea454d8993488ef94794221daefd5ad17813ed68e4da6bea7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "86b827f2929e320932fdeb0fc557e30eba918ca63352338583560b919d57d374",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.PF",
    "submitted_at": "2018-02-15T07:13:37Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9c1e0f39373ed750e045472535e085e53d56c2418e334b491d365dd9a8302e8d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1802.05420",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}