Pith Number

pith:5QJ5GXMW

pith:2017:5QJ5GXMW4JPKF6W6DGVJ74VPCR

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A Minimax Algorithm Better Than Alpha-beta?: No and Yes

Arie de Bruin, Aske Plaat, Jonathan Schaeffer, Wim Pijls

arxiv:1702.03401 v1 · 2017-02-11 · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5QJ5GXMW4JPKF6W6DGVJ74VPCR}

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Record completeness

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3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-18T00:50:35.068056Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ec13d35d96e25ea2fade19aa9ff2af1450a401372f6842dd0dce435af778f029

Aliases

arxiv: 1702.03401 · arxiv_version: 1702.03401v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1702.03401 · pith_short_12: 5QJ5GXMW4JPK · pith_short_16: 5QJ5GXMW4JPKF6W6 · pith_short_8: 5QJ5GXMW

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/5QJ5GXMW4JPKF6W6DGVJ74VPCR \
  | 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: ec13d35d96e25ea2fade19aa9ff2af1450a401372f6842dd0dce435af778f029

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "78d224035448097eab33e77db59b69d09e6130219fefdcbd67356330cf8bf7d9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2017-02-11T09:48:12Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "760b7d879a11291bd95f232e79185dd1abcc496a2f7b3af88331f4d8a6a13de5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1702.03401",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}