Pith Number

pith:IABGB5JU

pith:2008:IABGB5JUKUGIK6QWAFG4QXCJRY

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A General Theory of Computational Scalability Based on Rational Functions

Neil J. Gunther

arxiv:0808.1431 v2 · 2008-08-11 · cs.PF · cs.DC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{IABGB5JUKUGIK6QWAFG4QXCJRY}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-04T15:13:46.504961Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

400260f534550c857a16014dc85c498e24339a958ab0ad7f3245ecb7a7c37a81

Aliases

arxiv: 0808.1431 · arxiv_version: 0808.1431v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0808.1431 · pith_short_12: IABGB5JUKUGI · pith_short_16: IABGB5JUKUGIK6QW · pith_short_8: IABGB5JU

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/IABGB5JUKUGIK6QWAFG4QXCJRY \
  | 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: 400260f534550c857a16014dc85c498e24339a958ab0ad7f3245ecb7a7c37a81

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "50df39fbf6ae99a98c03880de4fd22ee1cc0a57a67248e9089fd8328a33cedb8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DC"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.PF",
    "submitted_at": "2008-08-11T00:06:16Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d534588317fef6bff4af425097b33490bfd79f2cbb7bd18a3a2727e8cb311c2b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0808.1431",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}