Pith Number

pith:CO5BBRXE

pith:2018:CO5BBRXEJDOCAMOM4RUQSMPFMK

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SimCommSys: Taking the errors out of error-correcting code simulations

Johann A. Briffa, Stephan Wesemeyer

arxiv:1802.08522 v1 · 2018-02-23 · cs.IT · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{CO5BBRXEJDOCAMOM4RUQSMPFMK}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:22:41.309060Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

13ba10c6e448dc2031cce4690931e5629e7a766fa55d77edd8358645c19f4aa2

Aliases

arxiv: 1802.08522 · arxiv_version: 1802.08522v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1802.08522 · pith_short_12: CO5BBRXEJDOC · pith_short_16: CO5BBRXEJDOCAMOM · pith_short_8: CO5BBRXE

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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/CO5BBRXEJDOCAMOM4RUQSMPFMK \
  | 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: 13ba10c6e448dc2031cce4690931e5629e7a766fa55d77edd8358645c19f4aa2

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "731901759e3c1c86b16674515008bbc506b877cb0c89253ca265ae5d7706222e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2018-02-23T13:27:03Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "43a4afd2880bcca94b2eca9c4ed886a78b59327b0a85130744b74162111cdb5e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1802.08522",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}