Pith Number

pith:CHJGBLB5

pith:2011:CHJGBLB56BV6ADN24FCGFQDBMC

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Approximating Edit Distance in Near-Linear Time

Alexandr Andoni, Krzysztof Onak

arxiv:1109.5635 v1 · 2011-09-26 · cs.DS

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{CHJGBLB56BV6ADN24FCGFQDBMC}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T04:12:19.064734Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

11d260ac3df06be00dbae14462c06160af2a523f862384e6ab0baa7aedce7d0c

Aliases

arxiv: 1109.5635 · arxiv_version: 1109.5635v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1109.5635 · pith_short_12: CHJGBLB56BV6 · pith_short_16: CHJGBLB56BV6ADN2 · pith_short_8: CHJGBLB5

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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/CHJGBLB56BV6ADN24FCGFQDBMC \
  | 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: 11d260ac3df06be00dbae14462c06160af2a523f862384e6ab0baa7aedce7d0c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "fd8bc6e184400b41aab8e481d1cf14c4100e1109705f759d4a86c5db97d3e784",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2011-09-26T16:48:20Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "025072d4489d0b97b7815e0bdf7a01f6d4efcbadf0427c5386b1ee9bddbb3bb4"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1109.5635",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}