Pith Number

pith:KKYYNJLZ

pith:2009:KKYYNJLZY74R7TGFKQ6CMDTFSJ

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Accuracy threshold for concatenated error detection in one dimension

A. M. Stephens, Z. W. E. Evans

arxiv:0902.2658 v3 · 2009-02-16 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KKYYNJLZY74R7TGFKQ6CMDTFSJ}

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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	2026-05-18T03:24:07.880488Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

52b186a579c7f91fccc5543c260e65924911364e563daa4d47af7d65a5ac2f51

Aliases

arxiv: 0902.2658 · arxiv_version: 0902.2658v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0902.2658 · pith_short_12: KKYYNJLZY74R · pith_short_16: KKYYNJLZY74R7TGF · pith_short_8: KKYYNJLZ

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/KKYYNJLZY74R7TGFKQ6CMDTFSJ \
  | 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: 52b186a579c7f91fccc5543c260e65924911364e563daa4d47af7d65a5ac2f51

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7a7b333cbebdf05231be78a6de24aa8803ad8463ce07e1d2c6315a17fe2181ca",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2009-02-16T11:38:25Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4d41f47d181f2ee915b54e5c77bbf8f9c9f44656b849d4a8aaa6fe50d6ddc46e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0902.2658",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}