Pith Number

pith:5ZA4EOPU

pith:2016:5ZA4EOPUGOLXSIAPZKDQUPHBM7

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Balanced Allocation: Patience is not a Virtue

Amanda Redlich, Eli Upfal, John Augustine, William K. Moses Jr.

arxiv:1602.08298 v2 · 2016-02-26 · cs.DS · cs.DM

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5ZA4EOPUGOLXSIAPZKDQUPHBM7}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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	2026-05-18T00:25:21.500376Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ee41c239f4339779200fca870a3ce167c35893a2c0f5f16900300a6b99f8ab28

Aliases

arxiv: 1602.08298 · arxiv_version: 1602.08298v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1602.08298 · pith_short_12: 5ZA4EOPUGOLX · pith_short_16: 5ZA4EOPUGOLXSIAP · pith_short_8: 5ZA4EOPU

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/5ZA4EOPUGOLXSIAPZKDQUPHBM7 \
  | 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: ee41c239f4339779200fca870a3ce167c35893a2c0f5f16900300a6b99f8ab28

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1829d54d4922ce2ec9c690409968762dd59e365a07975b543ba12437e809f668",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DM"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2016-02-26T12:45:25Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8bbcac41c68a74225facd3642f14675b691092bc040aaaa3dc14b08cf62c5ce8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1602.08298",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}