Pith Number

pith:5GIP4M6W

pith:2012:5GIP4M6WK7GXEPJUHDSBCVZ4WG

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Creating a level playing field for all symbols in a discretization

Dimitar Kazakov, Matthew Butler

arxiv:1210.5118 v1 · 2012-10-18 · cs.DS · cs.AI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5GIP4M6WK7GXEPJUHDSBCVZ4WG}

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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	2026-05-18T03:42:53.825761Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e990fe33d657cd723d3438e411573cb1894db44380146fc7806e07a2335fee61

Aliases

arxiv: 1210.5118 · arxiv_version: 1210.5118v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1210.5118 · pith_short_12: 5GIP4M6WK7GX · pith_short_16: 5GIP4M6WK7GXEPJU · pith_short_8: 5GIP4M6W

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/5GIP4M6WK7GXEPJUHDSBCVZ4WG \
  | 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: e990fe33d657cd723d3438e411573cb1894db44380146fc7806e07a2335fee61

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7f0c10d0629a0c4d3a873c50d4cfc5e53d344266bb631db52b8a6bf43caac5f6",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2012-10-18T13:44:45Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "49a1d8bc860709e95bf1966aefb17044ed70aa4a49fcf45e699338689c8a2367"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1210.5118",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}