Pith Number

pith:L2G4TO2F

pith:2018:L2G4TO2FOF3SU6372KVU4T62IV

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On taking advantage of multiple requests in error correcting codes

Mary Wootters, Prasanna Ramakrishnan

arxiv:1802.00875 v1 · 2018-02-02 · cs.IT · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{L2G4TO2FOF3SU6372KVU4T62IV}

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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	2026-05-18T00:24:28.037012Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5e8dc9bb4571772a7b7fd2ab4e4fda454349b1d1b09661e10ad6d266f697c006

Aliases

arxiv: 1802.00875 · arxiv_version: 1802.00875v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1802.00875 · pith_short_12: L2G4TO2FOF3S · pith_short_16: L2G4TO2FOF3SU637 · pith_short_8: L2G4TO2F

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/L2G4TO2FOF3SU6372KVU4T62IV \
  | 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: 5e8dc9bb4571772a7b7fd2ab4e4fda454349b1d1b09661e10ad6d266f697c006

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2f20bd918f9651b5343565d38ca90bdc7149124513325b4c9604494030cdaa24",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2018-02-02T23:25:57Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "466b28ff1e686aa3b4c814049aaa5fa4628a54e4c8fdbdaf617accbce367f555"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1802.00875",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}