Pith Number

pith:JQTYPRNP

pith:1998:JQTYPRNP35JZ2VK5NFANHJ6K4K

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A Comparison of Hashing Schemes for Address Lookup in Computer Networks

R. Jain

arxiv:cs/9809087 v1 · 1998-09-24 · cs.NI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{JQTYPRNP35JZ2VK5NFANHJ6K4K}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-05-18T00:58:56.042043Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4c2787c5afdf539d555d6940d3a7cae28f6bd3d1665b8299d27d43adafc23001

Aliases

arxiv: cs/9809087 · arxiv_version: cs/9809087v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.cs/9809087 · pith_short_12: JQTYPRNP35JZ · pith_short_16: JQTYPRNP35JZ2VK5 · pith_short_8: JQTYPRNP

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/JQTYPRNP35JZ2VK5NFANHJ6K4K \
  | 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: 4c2787c5afdf539d555d6940d3a7cae28f6bd3d1665b8299d27d43adafc23001

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c69fe6bca8ebf986a69af714439332d7a0f0869d6be0a4ac3431da436dccd0db",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "cs.NI",
    "submitted_at": "1998-09-24T04:46:53Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "81cd78008b77f9ae2a34123c29af068921a094451cf11ba96e73e6fb4ca982ab"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "cs/9809087",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}