Pith Number

pith:NACSCRAP

pith:2014:NACSCRAPAJ25D4GYJH2HRRIG24

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Improving the distance reduction step in the von Neumann algorithm

C.H. Jeffrey Pang

arxiv:1408.3214 v1 · 2014-08-14 · math.OC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NACSCRAPAJ25D4GYJH2HRRIG24}

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4 Citations open

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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	2026-05-18T02:45:13.525837Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

680521440f0275d1f0d849f478c506d73a377d92d8189376829eb89ad1a0c3a0

Aliases

arxiv: 1408.3214 · arxiv_version: 1408.3214v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1408.3214 · pith_short_12: NACSCRAPAJ25 · pith_short_16: NACSCRAPAJ25D4GY · pith_short_8: NACSCRAP

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/NACSCRAPAJ25D4GYJH2HRRIG24 \
  | 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: 680521440f0275d1f0d849f478c506d73a377d92d8189376829eb89ad1a0c3a0

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a2234ec623863ac10196eb5114a0ba60e205ab25ebc9417ffdf418bd9ebdea7c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.OC",
    "submitted_at": "2014-08-14T08:30:22Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "564fa87ca57cd8cab44678afb909c8d7c73247ccbdfe74364297c7001f46a9ea"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1408.3214",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}