Pith Number

pith:M7IMIGSQ

pith:2012:M7IMIGSQLX2O5DNYG46FISMERX

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Near-Optimal Online Multiselection in Internal and External Memory

Ankur Gupta, J\'er\'emy Barbay, Jonathan Sorenson, S. Srinivasa Rao

arxiv:1206.5336 v3 · 2012-06-22 · cs.DS

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{M7IMIGSQLX2O5DNYG46FISMERX}

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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	2026-05-18T00:00:41.706706Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

67d0c41a505df4ee8db8373c5449848dc7173d75b594429ca4085a43d61b8837

Aliases

arxiv: 1206.5336 · arxiv_version: 1206.5336v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1206.5336 · pith_short_12: M7IMIGSQLX2O · pith_short_16: M7IMIGSQLX2O5DNY · pith_short_8: M7IMIGSQ

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/M7IMIGSQLX2O5DNYG46FISMERX \
  | 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: 67d0c41a505df4ee8db8373c5449848dc7173d75b594429ca4085a43d61b8837

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "144cb4b4fc098434b46f4f4ff36be449288d4f11edc3941fe749538e7255c1d4",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2012-06-22T22:53:21Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "89ce59d96fef8c74999f9304a92d1e5b290d7868526ffb55c8ce379756011e05"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1206.5336",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}