Pith Number

pith:N6OPBW74

pith:2016:N6OPBW74MDADU2OJEGPOL3RD7P

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Communication Cost for Updating Linear Functions when Message Updates are Sparse: Connections to Maximally Recoverable Codes

Muriel Medard, N. Prakash

arxiv:1605.01105 v3 · 2016-05-03 · cs.IT · math.IT

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\pithnumber{N6OPBW74MDADU2OJEGPOL3RD7P}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:08:57.993339Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6f9cf0dbfc60c03a69c9219ee5ee23fbca08d1200493905e6c8acf0279b16d8c

Aliases

arxiv: 1605.01105 · arxiv_version: 1605.01105v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1605.01105 · pith_short_12: N6OPBW74MDAD · pith_short_16: N6OPBW74MDADU2OJ · pith_short_8: N6OPBW74

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/N6OPBW74MDADU2OJEGPOL3RD7P \
  | 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: 6f9cf0dbfc60c03a69c9219ee5ee23fbca08d1200493905e6c8acf0279b16d8c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e4d12346a316111363335630bc7f70c1e6be41da8bfffa9b33c43a9aa48da898",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2016-05-03T22:20:30Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "38467d4853f550899d54054078178cf4fa388465e24074c5bdbf99ad2476a1c3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1605.01105",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}