Pith Number

pith:EM47LDKC

pith:2014:EM47LDKCERLWRHEKYHRGV4UKMQ

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We Are Impatient: Algorithms for Geographically Distributed Load Balancing with (Almost) Arbitrary Load Functions

Krzysztof Rzadca, Piotr Skowron

arxiv:1402.2090 v1 · 2014-02-10 · cs.DC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{EM47LDKCERLWRHEKYHRGV4UKMQ}

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First computed	2026-05-18T02:59:32.353890Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2339f58d422457689c8ac1e26af28a643cc567150b604eb6ba7a42a84de128b7

Aliases

arxiv: 1402.2090 · arxiv_version: 1402.2090v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1402.2090 · pith_short_12: EM47LDKCERLW · pith_short_16: EM47LDKCERLWRHEK · pith_short_8: EM47LDKC

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/EM47LDKCERLWRHEKYHRGV4UKMQ \
  | 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: 2339f58d422457689c8ac1e26af28a643cc567150b604eb6ba7a42a84de128b7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a5605227b7fa92546001a22c5c5b2ece27656269b2c84243d77748c9e81d002a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2014-02-10T10:33:52Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "173296e04b4d3586eb5bd3037cca31f8fa192157549050046c20bd4603319d7e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1402.2090",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}