Pith Number

pith:L56TFYFC

pith:2017:L56TFYFCV67I2PIMWOUDLH7SJF

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A Classification of Functions in Multiterminal Distributed Computing

Shun Watanabe

arxiv:1712.02985 v2 · 2017-12-08 · cs.IT · math.IT

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\pithnumber{L56TFYFCV67I2PIMWOUDLH7SJF}

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First computed	2026-05-17T23:59:39.375685Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5f7d32e0a2afbe8d3d0cb3a8359ff249420c7150ba511f805827975e28c65c93

Aliases

arxiv: 1712.02985 · arxiv_version: 1712.02985v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1712.02985 · pith_short_12: L56TFYFCV67I · pith_short_16: L56TFYFCV67I2PIM · pith_short_8: L56TFYFC

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/L56TFYFCV67I2PIMWOUDLH7SJF \
  | 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: 5f7d32e0a2afbe8d3d0cb3a8359ff249420c7150ba511f805827975e28c65c93

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b681729ad0ece75b98fea85490a4afa121de13763c1b714add53eb57edc50a94",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2017-12-08T09:04:30Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "98a31678cf7dcc835fc4e9f763074943de333d0a3bd531401e5d18576e0b5f43"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1712.02985",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}