Pith Number

pith:F5BVZLLI

pith:2017:F5BVZLLINOGTVZHORLG3ZWTC6I

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Solving Almost all Systems of Random Quadratic Equations

Gang Wang, Georgios B. Giannakis, Jie Chen, Yousef Saad

arxiv:1705.10407 v1 · 2017-05-29 · math.OC · cs.IT · math.IT · stat.ML

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{F5BVZLLINOGTVZHORLG3ZWTC6I}

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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	2026-05-18T00:43:31.122242Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2f435cad686b8d3ae4ee8acdbcda62f21e7e2f2767aff615b524d744eaf449c7

Aliases

arxiv: 1705.10407 · arxiv_version: 1705.10407v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1705.10407 · pith_short_12: F5BVZLLINOGT · pith_short_16: F5BVZLLINOGTVZHO · pith_short_8: F5BVZLLI

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/F5BVZLLINOGTVZHORLG3ZWTC6I \
  | 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: 2f435cad686b8d3ae4ee8acdbcda62f21e7e2f2767aff615b524d744eaf449c7

Canonical record JSON

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  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4c641ba9e958bad2d5def09a2ade405bcbd77ec50a513be42d94477e337e6bdf",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.IT",
      "math.IT",
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.OC",
    "submitted_at": "2017-05-29T22:18:05Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "bf65e953e5cadc75a25c86384ce1ef58505baf37b3761cdbd0174bd22f072cf5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1705.10407",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}