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pith:J6RWBHCJ

pith:2013:J6RWBHCJCDUEKUNCRM45VLRL2E

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On the data processing theorem in the semi-deterministic setting

Neri Merhav

arxiv:1304.0183 v1 · 2013-03-31 · cs.IT · math.IT

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:58:17.457079Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4fa3609c4910e84551a28b39daae2bd10f76200ec679fce66377f513991529f5

Aliases

arxiv: 1304.0183 · arxiv_version: 1304.0183v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1304.0183 · pith_short_12: J6RWBHCJCDUE · pith_short_16: J6RWBHCJCDUEKUNC · pith_short_8: J6RWBHCJ

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/J6RWBHCJCDUEKUNCRM45VLRL2E \
  | 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: 4fa3609c4910e84551a28b39daae2bd10f76200ec679fce66377f513991529f5

Canonical record JSON

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    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2013-03-31T10:34:26Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f3ba63da57314d365ae3f3f325048aa50579e99fbfb80137973b765dc43a5129"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
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    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}