Pith Number

pith:CS7BRNPT

pith:2012:CS7BRNPTIM2GP4HT7IAGLM6VCM

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Sublinear Time Approximate Sum via Uniform Random Sampling

Bin Fu, Wenfeng Li, Zhiyong Peng

arxiv:1202.6598 v1 · 2012-02-29 · cs.DS

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{CS7BRNPTIM2GP4HT7IAGLM6VCM}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-05-18T04:01:12.116253Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

14be18b5f3433467f0f3fa0065b3d5132e20ef0707565690dbc4a9d0b6ca1acf

Aliases

arxiv: 1202.6598 · arxiv_version: 1202.6598v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1202.6598 · pith_short_12: CS7BRNPTIM2G · pith_short_16: CS7BRNPTIM2GP4HT · pith_short_8: CS7BRNPT

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/CS7BRNPTIM2GP4HT7IAGLM6VCM \
  | 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: 14be18b5f3433467f0f3fa0065b3d5132e20ef0707565690dbc4a9d0b6ca1acf

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4e0ca904c014f40bf3d653d372633e9a3dfe139bfed1451ff824f2982f839443",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2012-02-29T16:52:17Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "abc5352806610c251cb1b61b6b241562a6f94c233c8fb64b0eb8f20b6f3fbdf7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1202.6598",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}