Pith Number

pith:H6GVN7YM

pith:2017:H6GVN7YMWXC7EP3W4MQT5MJOM3

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Computing the Line Index of Balance Using Integer Programming Optimisation

Andrew J. Mason, Mark C. Wilson, Samin Aref

arxiv:1710.09876 v3 · 2017-10-26 · cs.SI · math.OC

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\pithnumber{H6GVN7YMWXC7EP3W4MQT5MJOM3}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:24:09.678651Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3f8d56ff0cb5c5f23f76e3213eb12e66c8a681671d9568479762c8cd824f165f

Aliases

arxiv: 1710.09876 · arxiv_version: 1710.09876v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1710.09876 · pith_short_12: H6GVN7YMWXC7 · pith_short_16: H6GVN7YMWXC7EP3W · pith_short_8: H6GVN7YM

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/H6GVN7YMWXC7EP3W4MQT5MJOM3 \
  | 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: 3f8d56ff0cb5c5f23f76e3213eb12e66c8a681671d9568479762c8cd824f165f

Canonical record JSON

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      "math.OC"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SI",
    "submitted_at": "2017-10-26T19:09:57Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1cb60de7855e9ba721270b3fa4c9923cdcdf5791a366f56166c93a96fb8411af"
  },
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  "source": {
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  }
}