Pith Number

pith:NB2Z3GDD

pith:2016:NB2Z3GDD3WWHWOJBBNSTYONWAX

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Duplication Distance to the Root for Binary Sequences

Farzad Farnoud, Jehoshua Bruck, Noga Alon, Siddharth Jain

arxiv:1611.05537 v1 · 2016-11-17 · cs.IT · cs.DM · math.IT · q-bio.GN

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NB2Z3GDD3WWHWOJBBNSTYONWAX}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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4 Citations open

5 Replications 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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:58:03.294746Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

68759d9863ddac7b39210b653c39b605ef525a1fe4662842778f94bd49d8e1ba

Aliases

arxiv: 1611.05537 · arxiv_version: 1611.05537v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1611.05537 · pith_short_12: NB2Z3GDD3WWH · pith_short_16: NB2Z3GDD3WWHWOJB · pith_short_8: NB2Z3GDD

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/NB2Z3GDD3WWHWOJBBNSTYONWAX \
  | 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: 68759d9863ddac7b39210b653c39b605ef525a1fe4662842778f94bd49d8e1ba

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "34e47cf0b59f61f8d010de96b9a0f4c25a3ecc7c2235f24f7a6fd877cca2b8d7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DM",
      "math.IT",
      "q-bio.GN"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2016-11-17T02:39:54Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b7fcfcd43c99a874db4432c7d6ff41af395c4fe30f7d9aebf8d839e34795ba17"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1611.05537",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}