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pith:DQBVLEH3

pith:2015:DQBVLEH32VKDI5II6OC3CKHQGS

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The computational complexity of calculating partition functions of optimal medians with Hamming distance

Heather Smith, Istv\'an Mikl\'os

arxiv:1506.06107 v2 · 2015-06-19 · cs.CC · cs.DS · math.CO

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:52:53.201143Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
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Canonical hash

1c035590fbd554347508f385b128f034a74ad7d66d021bd29a1f10fddc121e71

Aliases

arxiv: 1506.06107 · arxiv_version: 1506.06107v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1506.06107 · pith_short_12: DQBVLEH32VKD · pith_short_16: DQBVLEH32VKDI5II · pith_short_8: DQBVLEH3

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/DQBVLEH32VKDI5II6OC3CKHQGS \
  | 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: 1c035590fbd554347508f385b128f034a74ad7d66d021bd29a1f10fddc121e71

Canonical record JSON

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    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
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    "submitted_at": "2015-06-19T18:47:43Z",
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