Pith Number

pith:NFA7MTJ7

pith:2012:NFA7MTJ74OW34I4WXAMOD432J7

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

How many interchanges does the selection sort make for iid geometric(p) input?

Debasish Sahani, Soubhik Chakraborty

arxiv:1202.5968 v1 · 2012-02-27 · stat.CO

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\pithnumber{NFA7MTJ74OW34I4WXAMOD432J7}

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First computed	2026-05-18T04:01:24.181411Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6941f64d3fe3adbe2396b818e1f37a4ff5b86b65c1d300f6ff06aef7c8a32da5

Aliases

arxiv: 1202.5968 · arxiv_version: 1202.5968v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1202.5968 · pith_short_12: NFA7MTJ74OW3 · pith_short_16: NFA7MTJ74OW34I4W · pith_short_8: NFA7MTJ7

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/NFA7MTJ74OW34I4WXAMOD432J7 \
  | 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: 6941f64d3fe3adbe2396b818e1f37a4ff5b86b65c1d300f6ff06aef7c8a32da5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f6ac9242b2d14ce192651fd9d3acd4b4fd75331dd569930c5c39326e243e5098",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2012-02-27T15:11:21Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "34a450e59f655e3a08b10adc7de94c11823a6ac3be02d19235dd683710fcc111"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1202.5968",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}