Pith Number

pith:LVVBGQ4R

pith:2016:LVVBGQ4RUXAWJIVEAL5A52OUEN

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On the Optimality of Tape Merge of Two Lists with Similar Size

Jialin Zhang, Qian Li, Xiaoming Sun

arxiv:1610.03266 v1 · 2016-10-11 · cs.CC · cs.DS

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{LVVBGQ4RUXAWJIVEAL5A52OUEN}

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:02:35.884293Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5d6a134391a5c164a2a402fa0ee9d42351f41eb46907605e1dd027c9787e6cf5

Aliases

arxiv: 1610.03266 · arxiv_version: 1610.03266v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1610.03266 · pith_short_12: LVVBGQ4RUXAW · pith_short_16: LVVBGQ4RUXAWJIVE · pith_short_8: LVVBGQ4R

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/LVVBGQ4RUXAWJIVEAL5A52OUEN \
  | 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: 5d6a134391a5c164a2a402fa0ee9d42351f41eb46907605e1dd027c9787e6cf5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "66d47ba1e6f46181c5eb5197e6316e2a89309c71c857ba05ef595d176c83363f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DS"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CC",
    "submitted_at": "2016-10-11T10:21:28Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "327a00571758c6db3c6c9d4257d28e85b9c28b4ad4d2ab6ab2e2491fa137af4c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1610.03266",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}