Pith Number

pith:DEERQ6WI

pith:2011:DEERQ6WIDRMPGJTB5WPZ7DEPEH

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Symmetry of information and bounds on nonuniform randomness extraction via Kolmogorov extractors

Marius Zimand

arxiv:1103.5669 v1 · 2011-03-29 · cs.CC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{DEERQ6WIDRMPGJTB5WPZ7DEPEH}

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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	2026-05-18T04:25:29.112201Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

1909187ac81c58f32661ed9f9f8c8f21c9d8ba16f508fca0a7c4a17f37c7a1f6

Aliases

arxiv: 1103.5669 · arxiv_version: 1103.5669v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1103.5669 · pith_short_12: DEERQ6WIDRMP · pith_short_16: DEERQ6WIDRMPGJTB · pith_short_8: DEERQ6WI

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/DEERQ6WIDRMPGJTB5WPZ7DEPEH \
  | 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: 1909187ac81c58f32661ed9f9f8c8f21c9d8ba16f508fca0a7c4a17f37c7a1f6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6e0da58d705d3e07c0f18c33b1ca0286b35dd193cc999c5f04ccb199ff664bc5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CC",
    "submitted_at": "2011-03-29T14:53:25Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d3c8d8b233f9e1a2752a3a3c1da96071d63676abf68e46bf874702711b20fed9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1103.5669",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}