Pith Number

pith:NAXB72KL

pith:2011:NAXB72KLZRQ5BKSTVPRDUJDSHL

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Information theory of massively parallel probe storage channels

Oleg Zaboronski, Oliver Hambrey, Thomas Parnell

arxiv:1102.0540 v1 · 2011-02-02 · cs.IT · cs.IR · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NAXB72KLZRQ5BKSTVPRDUJDSHL}

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First computed	2026-05-18T02:22:41.036100Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

682e1fe94bcc61d0aa53abe23a24723aee0c1c80483bc19fbd950982019faadf

Aliases

arxiv: 1102.0540 · arxiv_version: 1102.0540v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1102.0540 · pith_short_12: NAXB72KLZRQ5 · pith_short_16: NAXB72KLZRQ5BKST · pith_short_8: NAXB72KL

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/NAXB72KLZRQ5BKSTVPRDUJDSHL \
  | 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: 682e1fe94bcc61d0aa53abe23a24723aee0c1c80483bc19fbd950982019faadf

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6d2e8486b46f7815c53fee500fa067e9578ed2276af1b7a01b6b996a0ac73111",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.IR",
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2011-02-02T20:02:15Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5acce78dbf10af1ec232cf2ad7f4f5e678ed097155f33d44df0ad7cb31d696cb"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1102.0540",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}