Pith Number

pith:LRGAXLDD

pith:2017:LRGAXLDDTEO7NFTUKZS6F4JN4W

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Optimizing Node Discovery on Networks: Problem Definitions, Fast Algorithms, and Observations

John C.S. Lui, Junzhou Zhao, Pinghui Wang

arxiv:1703.04307 v3 · 2017-03-13 · cs.SI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{LRGAXLDDTEO7NFTUKZS6F4JN4W}

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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	2026-05-18T00:36:24.341629Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5c4c0bac63991df696745665e2f12de5a2eb43dffa5ddfbdf866c243d07f603b

Aliases

arxiv: 1703.04307 · arxiv_version: 1703.04307v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1703.04307 · pith_short_12: LRGAXLDDTEO7 · pith_short_16: LRGAXLDDTEO7NFTU · pith_short_8: LRGAXLDD

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/LRGAXLDDTEO7NFTUKZS6F4JN4W \
  | 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: 5c4c0bac63991df696745665e2f12de5a2eb43dffa5ddfbdf866c243d07f603b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f5c3a18bc4115d64486a3a0c80e9171116cc9d6fd6516dbd202ae09668a1fc53",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SI",
    "submitted_at": "2017-03-13T09:46:53Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ab89a5b0e789691d45858573ce1429e63b2599d1c11656f4021ae86b5afcd68c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1703.04307",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}