Pith Number

pith:BDOZXQW5

pith:2014:BDOZXQW5QEPHOWY67LLLRPNVJO

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Exact random coding error exponents of optimal bin index decoding

Neri Merhav

arxiv:1404.7604 v1 · 2014-04-30 · cs.IT · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BDOZXQW5QEPHOWY67LLLRPNVJO}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:57:51.943177Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

08dd9bc2dd811e775b1efad6b8bdb54bb31e6de6b3f1bd32c4a7545360e67043

Aliases

arxiv: 1404.7604 · arxiv_version: 1404.7604v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1404.7604 · pith_short_12: BDOZXQW5QEPH · pith_short_16: BDOZXQW5QEPHOWY6 · pith_short_8: BDOZXQW5

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/BDOZXQW5QEPHOWY67LLLRPNVJO \
  | 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: 08dd9bc2dd811e775b1efad6b8bdb54bb31e6de6b3f1bd32c4a7545360e67043

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1dcf8a78c83590f2919914c5ef117044dbe402a6a4872b0fd069ece987eb59f8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2014-04-30T06:23:12Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "19ce4d75ac498e66820645bec49f52be6541e5340a30d42e9ac6cda2c7facd06"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1404.7604",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}