Pith Number

pith:BZW6UNF2

pith:2013:BZW6UNF2CZ2A4K74JLL7JY3OIT

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On Finite Block-Length Quantization Distortion

Chen Gong, Xiaodong Wang

arxiv:1306.4754 v1 · 2013-06-20 · cs.IT · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BZW6UNF2CZ2A4K74JLL7JY3OIT}

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4 Citations open

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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	2026-05-18T03:20:21.811535Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0e6dea34ba16740e2bfc4ad7f4e36e44dbd278d2ed9771ec6ce6716d87bd13dd

Aliases

arxiv: 1306.4754 · arxiv_version: 1306.4754v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1306.4754 · pith_short_12: BZW6UNF2CZ2A · pith_short_16: BZW6UNF2CZ2A4K74 · pith_short_8: BZW6UNF2

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/BZW6UNF2CZ2A4K74JLL7JY3OIT \
  | 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: 0e6dea34ba16740e2bfc4ad7f4e36e44dbd278d2ed9771ec6ce6716d87bd13dd

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2b038eba202c7c16549a98ae32d8f192ffc117a422a3776d85e6d62922d58c3a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2013-06-20T04:56:33Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5a0d77ead6221df9ba7d73be41959814d9e65e59e3cf19d718033cd2a498fa97"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1306.4754",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}