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pith:BATFYDLV

pith:2014:BATFYDLV423K4Q6HWE6ARXTHHW

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Bounding the seed length of Miller and Shi's unbounded randomness expansion protocol

Renan Gross, Scott Aaronson

arxiv:1410.8019 v1 · 2014-10-29 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BATFYDLV423K4Q6HWE6ARXTHHW}

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First computed	2026-05-18T02:39:07.526105Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

08265c0d75e6b6ae43c7b13c08de673d9d5b82e9ff585f7a1ed25f440afffedc

Aliases

arxiv: 1410.8019 · arxiv_version: 1410.8019v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1410.8019 · pith_short_12: BATFYDLV423K · pith_short_16: BATFYDLV423K4Q6H · pith_short_8: BATFYDLV

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/BATFYDLV423K4Q6HWE6ARXTHHW \
  | 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: 08265c0d75e6b6ae43c7b13c08de673d9d5b82e9ff585f7a1ed25f440afffedc

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c9c444b4395f80b56bd5cf6f50e9662b9bd7a5e50396f6fbcf0fd8ee993c74b3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2014-10-29T15:25:23Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f553cfc4665b23026ec211337032d6e712fd12d30bcabbd2e6c1cf4108728b30"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1410.8019",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}