Pith Number

pith:FFGKWWDY

pith:2018:FFGKWWDYCZQZBPKCVYIYOWBD5T

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Large-Scale Distributed Algorithms for Facility Location with Outliers

Shreyas Pai, Sriram V. Pemmaraju, Tanmay Inamdar

arxiv:1811.06494 v1 · 2018-11-15 · cs.DC · cs.DS

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{FFGKWWDYCZQZBPKCVYIYOWBD5T}

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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	2026-05-18T00:00:37.585594Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

294cab5878166190bd42ae11875823eccf9eae8a7bdb26ddf1734f14c02e8c3b

Aliases

arxiv: 1811.06494 · arxiv_version: 1811.06494v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1811.06494 · pith_short_12: FFGKWWDYCZQZ · pith_short_16: FFGKWWDYCZQZBPKC · pith_short_8: FFGKWWDY

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/FFGKWWDYCZQZBPKCVYIYOWBD5T \
  | 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: 294cab5878166190bd42ae11875823eccf9eae8a7bdb26ddf1734f14c02e8c3b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f5159075129bb3f5fb113586b7409dc35f6cec7766002bfb2d8afcfa21bfd78c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DS"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2018-11-15T17:40:30Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "13c0712acc55625de16d1f8534db4f96467b08e23b7ac9e0912f9f69afbdb0c8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1811.06494",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}