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pith:MWAEYATI

pith:2018:MWAEYATIB7OGFSHK2TGEU4NELH
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Why the Firefly Algorithm Works?

Xingshi He, Xin-She Yang

arxiv:1806.01632 v1 · 2018-04-22 · cs.NE · math.OC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MWAEYATIB7OGFSHK2TGEU4NELH}

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First computed 2026-05-18T00:14:12.202935Z
Builder pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature Pith Ed25519 (pith-v1-2026-05) · public key
Schema pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

65804c02680fdc62c8ead4cc4a71a459dd57205995695f69b4b2a402d29fec2c

Aliases

arxiv: 1806.01632 · arxiv_version: 1806.01632v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1806.01632 · pith_short_12: MWAEYATIB7OG · pith_short_16: MWAEYATIB7OGFSHK · pith_short_8: MWAEYATI
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Verify this Pith Number yourself
curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/MWAEYATIB7OGFSHK2TGEU4NELH \
  | 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: 65804c02680fdc62c8ead4cc4a71a459dd57205995695f69b4b2a402d29fec2c
Canonical record JSON
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      "math.OC"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.NE",
    "submitted_at": "2018-04-22T13:32:44Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1f11ad5b6d4938b90622ce2bf427beaf9e3114e36ff4241eb98bd592724766c7"
  },
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  "source": {
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  }
}