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pith:6GBWR6DJ

pith:2005:6GBWR6DJESN634SALV64QJI4SI

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Streaming and Sublinear Approximation of Entropy and Information Distances

Andrew McGregor, Sudipto Guha, Suresh Venkatasubramanian

arxiv:cs/0508122 v2 · 2005-08-27 · cs.DS · cs.IT · math.IT

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First computed	2026-07-04T15:02:46.578891Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f18368f869249bedf2405d7dc8251c923755c962079b9f738cd12e4ea6cc52f3

Aliases

arxiv: cs/0508122 · arxiv_version: cs/0508122v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.cs/0508122 · pith_short_12: 6GBWR6DJESN6 · pith_short_16: 6GBWR6DJESN634SA · pith_short_8: 6GBWR6DJ

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/6GBWR6DJESN634SALV64QJI4SI \
  | 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: f18368f869249bedf2405d7dc8251c923755c962079b9f738cd12e4ea6cc52f3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e4b5cdebbafbdedb73cbc19014203e2e5b9b48194c8d9847b2009a0f0b00d4e1",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.IT",
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2005-08-27T23:10:52Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "33fd76b2081f2729bc29ee3a0411ce7deae38f75b4a104f7789b67a8c74fe47f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "cs/0508122",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}