Pith Number

pith:M7E3BPSC

pith:2015:M7E3BPSCWAIWAX7CY5L5BGX52V

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Array Layouts for Comparison-Based Searching

Pat Morin, Paul-Virak Khuong

arxiv:1509.05053 v2 · 2015-09-16 · cs.DS

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{M7E3BPSCWAIWAX7CY5L5BGX52V}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-05-18T00:48:43.162414Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

67c9b0be42b011605fe2c757d09afdd5618fbe92a9f11a7c02b0cc6f7c8a0341

Aliases

arxiv: 1509.05053 · arxiv_version: 1509.05053v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1509.05053 · pith_short_12: M7E3BPSCWAIW · pith_short_16: M7E3BPSCWAIWAX7C · pith_short_8: M7E3BPSC

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/M7E3BPSCWAIWAX7CY5L5BGX52V \
  | 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: 67c9b0be42b011605fe2c757d09afdd5618fbe92a9f11a7c02b0cc6f7c8a0341

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8cead9c11c54d51ee1191389d264e4bacbd25802c9f1953dbb4367fb438bf5ad",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2015-09-16T20:20:47Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "217f21b16ebde64c8d29b65d5318552861fd9ed2cb19d7dd8d6a08c1df590e99"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1509.05053",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}