Pith Number

pith:DVSMOALR

pith:2013:DVSMOALRDN2BUVK2LQZZQDQZDI

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A Probabilistic Algorithm for Calculating Structure: Borrowing from Simulated Annealing

Russ B. Altman

arxiv:1303.1456 v1 · 2013-03-06 · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{DVSMOALRDN2BUVK2LQZZQDQZDI}

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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	2026-05-18T03:31:42.856526Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

1d64c701711b741a555a5c33980e191a235c2e5ad56c907ef8d8d6fc61635809

Aliases

arxiv: 1303.1456 · arxiv_version: 1303.1456v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1303.1456 · pith_short_12: DVSMOALRDN2B · pith_short_16: DVSMOALRDN2BUVK2 · pith_short_8: DVSMOALR

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/DVSMOALRDN2BUVK2LQZZQDQZDI \
  | 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: 1d64c701711b741a555a5c33980e191a235c2e5ad56c907ef8d8d6fc61635809

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1cd08ead0a5a15b61e549100a97f6d795a72d21826a1d245b59db25b895f020f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2013-03-06T14:18:35Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "91c6aff80675fac1bbdf2be631e06f86f738acbbd5be874fcc91cf7ce501a6d8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1303.1456",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}