Pith Number

pith:KFJS2DB7

pith:2017:KFJS2DB7U2FNEZVYGNDE4MBG5Y

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A Language and Hardware Independent Approach to Quantum-Classical Computing

Alexander J. McCaskey, Dmitry Liakh, Eugene F. Dumitrescu, Mengsu Chen, Travis S. Humble, Wu-chun Feng

arxiv:1710.01794 v2 · 2017-10-04 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KFJS2DB7U2FNEZVYGNDE4MBG5Y}

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4 Citations open

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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	2026-05-18T00:09:30.667067Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

51532d0c3fa68ad266b833464e3026ee2616ede6ee427b907829541bb857e2d1

Aliases

arxiv: 1710.01794 · arxiv_version: 1710.01794v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1710.01794 · pith_short_12: KFJS2DB7U2FN · pith_short_16: KFJS2DB7U2FNEZVY · pith_short_8: KFJS2DB7

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/KFJS2DB7U2FNEZVYGNDE4MBG5Y \
  | 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: 51532d0c3fa68ad266b833464e3026ee2616ede6ee427b907829541bb857e2d1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "77399197890cee044889a05c96dfdb37bffe0b2260ef071bcfccab932d083e92",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-10-04T20:33:03Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "873a91bc492195e724a106fc91ea87675908ad0f7efa7bcb81ab096cfe981afe"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1710.01794",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}