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pith:2022:IIHJUSPALG5565QERBKPDXBHGY
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On Approximating Total Variation Distance

A. Pavan, Arnab Bhattacharyya, Dimitrios Myrisiotis, Kuldeep S. Meel, N. V. Vinodchandran, Sutanu Gayen

arxiv:2206.07209 v2 · 2022-06-14 · cs.DS · cs.CC · cs.DM

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First computed 2026-07-05T06:42:02.106340Z
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Canonical hash

420e9a49e059bbdf76048854f1dc27363edabbe264b0e1f08ce3ecb3bb9142d3

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arxiv: 2206.07209 · arxiv_version: 2206.07209v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2206.07209 · pith_short_12: IIHJUSPALG55 · pith_short_16: IIHJUSPALG5565QE · pith_short_8: IIHJUSPA
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curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/IIHJUSPALG5565QERBKPDXBHGY \
  | 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: 420e9a49e059bbdf76048854f1dc27363edabbe264b0e1f08ce3ecb3bb9142d3
Canonical record JSON
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