Pith Number

pith:KB6W2KGV

pith:2010:KB6W2KGVGBXMRRZ7OFFCSEUTPS

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A Rate-Distortion Exponent Approach to Multiple Decoding Attempts for Reed-Solomon Codes

Henry D. Pfister, Krishna R. Narayanan, Phong S. Nguyen

arxiv:1002.0043 v2 · 2010-01-30 · cs.IT · math.IT

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\pithnumber{KB6W2KGVGBXMRRZ7OFFCSEUTPS}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:58:19.723141Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

507d6d28d5306ec8c73f714a2912937c95849fcf8aacda0536db2490f3e6b5da

Aliases

arxiv: 1002.0043 · arxiv_version: 1002.0043v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1002.0043 · pith_short_12: KB6W2KGVGBXM · pith_short_16: KB6W2KGVGBXMRRZ7 · pith_short_8: KB6W2KGV

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/KB6W2KGVGBXMRRZ7OFFCSEUTPS \
  | 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: 507d6d28d5306ec8c73f714a2912937c95849fcf8aacda0536db2490f3e6b5da

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0dcc39092e449c07a7302fb07680ebd438b5d3c776ee7b94157a141badef7e18",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2010-01-30T05:35:57Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a1f1c3acdf3d33b483ed1a4be0ea62f4a2bec5c91cfeb3c1526dbe651a14595a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1002.0043",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}