Pith Number

pith:FGY77CL2

pith:2009:FGY77CL24H54RX4PIZSZI56R36

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Need for Structure in Quantum Speedups

Andris Ambainis, Scott Aaronson

arxiv:0911.0996 v3 · 2009-11-05 · quant-ph · cs.CC

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Exponential quantum advantage in processing massive classical data

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First computed	2026-05-18T03:00:01.450281Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

29b1ff897ae1fbc8df8f46659477d1dfa6e5a8462067911f9b1d0784af9ebb7e

Aliases

arxiv: 0911.0996 · arxiv_version: 0911.0996v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0911.0996 · pith_short_12: FGY77CL24H54 · pith_short_16: FGY77CL24H54RX4P · pith_short_8: FGY77CL2

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/FGY77CL24H54RX4PIZSZI56R36 \
  | 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: 29b1ff897ae1fbc8df8f46659477d1dfa6e5a8462067911f9b1d0784af9ebb7e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c2c2fd1037054141f6a9d2a3b3310a03cd4df8c99e9feecf6199bf448186c173",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CC"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2009-11-05T09:10:42Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9f105f102b9b15c2941e9464a97fdb5f8c16ac4442f824128948f5e88572cea0"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0911.0996",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}