Pith Number

pith:IKY2NSSR

pith:2017:IKY2NSSRBFTNQT44KUSAOWSIA2

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How to Quantize $n$ Outputs of a Binary Symmetric Channel to $n-1$ Bits?

Or Ordentlich, Wasim Huleihel

arxiv:1701.03119 v2 · 2017-01-11 · cs.IT · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{IKY2NSSRBFTNQT44KUSAOWSIA2}

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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	2026-05-18T00:45:14.325284Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

42b1a6ca510966d84f9c5524075a48069a3dc01b23b834dab7c67321ece186ef

Aliases

arxiv: 1701.03119 · arxiv_version: 1701.03119v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1701.03119 · pith_short_12: IKY2NSSRBFTN · pith_short_16: IKY2NSSRBFTNQT44 · pith_short_8: IKY2NSSR

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/IKY2NSSRBFTNQT44KUSAOWSIA2 \
  | 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: 42b1a6ca510966d84f9c5524075a48069a3dc01b23b834dab7c67321ece186ef

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0774d8c262acb46c5df1877406db59f86a1c9d0557137216a03e67b6b7f2ce2b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2017-01-11T19:03:42Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "46ecc3eca28edb502dca914ecd0368d1097bc38f62fa84a6cebfefaf849008ed"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1701.03119",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}