Pith Number

pith:B5423GZP

pith:2014:B5423GZPQDDWQFMKPAMH2KMOAW

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Solving Multi-choice Secretary Problem in Parallel: An Optimal Observation-Selection Protocol

Jialin Zhang, Jia Zhang, Xiaoming Sun

arxiv:1405.5975 v2 · 2014-05-23 · cs.DS · cs.CC · cs.GT

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\pithnumber{B5423GZPQDDWQFMKPAMH2KMOAW}

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First computed	2026-05-18T02:42:39.231860Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0f79ad9b2f80c768158a78187d298e058afd1f964c0972335719438f7635c1f5

Aliases

arxiv: 1405.5975 · arxiv_version: 1405.5975v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1405.5975 · pith_short_12: B5423GZPQDDW · pith_short_16: B5423GZPQDDWQFMK · pith_short_8: B5423GZP

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/B5423GZPQDDWQFMKPAMH2KMOAW \
  | 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: 0f79ad9b2f80c768158a78187d298e058afd1f964c0972335719438f7635c1f5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "522a04a84bf0a3591fb8265410f1b5a54c39cc7412b173839fe6582a97af93a7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CC",
      "cs.GT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2014-05-23T07:16:19Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "bb4cb0285b4e0dd337a42ef279daca8e5cffe1037fa55b4084c5f6ec38ac8af9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1405.5975",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}