Pith Number

pith:KNSDIS2P

pith:2018:KNSDIS2PXX6EMHTBBDSBMVVGKX

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Sesquickselect: One and a half pivots for cache-efficient selection

Conrado Mart\'inez, Markus Nebel, Sebastian Wild

arxiv:1810.12322 v1 · 2018-10-29 · cs.DS

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KNSDIS2PXX6EMHTBBDSBMVVGKX}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications 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	2026-05-17T23:47:02.613585Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5364344b4fbdfc461e6108e41656a655c2ab83a63ad5733a7c4410dbe8188474

Aliases

arxiv: 1810.12322 · arxiv_version: 1810.12322v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1810.12322 · pith_short_12: KNSDIS2PXX6E · pith_short_16: KNSDIS2PXX6EMHTB · pith_short_8: KNSDIS2P

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/KNSDIS2PXX6EMHTBBDSBMVVGKX \
  | 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: 5364344b4fbdfc461e6108e41656a655c2ab83a63ad5733a7c4410dbe8188474

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a75654be5b4aab4ca7dcd9c84193ec7cbe41823b0d8c2876de28dad08a834d3b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2018-10-29T18:02:20Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "84ec086c1d424645518b0b84b986ef38da2d12606c5e349817d7f6c9834dcb22"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1810.12322",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}