Pith Number

pith:E56SWIL4

pith:2011:E56SWIL4PIBBQHBPRKPCOXLNFH

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One Packet Suffices - Highly Efficient Packetized Network Coding With Finite Memory

Bernhard Haeupler, Muriel M\'edard

arxiv:1102.3204 v1 · 2011-02-15 · cs.IT · cs.DS · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{E56SWIL4PIBBQHBPRKPCOXLNFH}

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T04:28:36.859355Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

277d2b217c7a02181c2f8a9e275d6d29cd2e9c9aef88e30aea7a765b154da002

Aliases

arxiv: 1102.3204 · arxiv_version: 1102.3204v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1102.3204 · pith_short_12: E56SWIL4PIBB · pith_short_16: E56SWIL4PIBBQHBP · pith_short_8: E56SWIL4

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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/E56SWIL4PIBBQHBPRKPCOXLNFH \
  | 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: 277d2b217c7a02181c2f8a9e275d6d29cd2e9c9aef88e30aea7a765b154da002

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8cb36d6e04399a897df7c559f6d266769f27fcbf066b47bc5254476c55188dc2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DS",
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2011-02-15T23:07:30Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e75c4a4f57e8d0c927037207c21f83384b9bab9dfcf23505805ebf479b6dbde6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1102.3204",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}