Pith Number

pith:NQDQ3AW3

pith:2010:NQDQ3AW3UORQ3LURYZIAERTGTO

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Distributed anonymous discrete function computation

Alex Olshevsky, John N. Tsitsiklis, Julien M. Hendrickx

arxiv:1004.2102 v4 · 2010-04-13 · math.OC · cs.DC · cs.SY

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NQDQ3AW3UORQ3LURYZIAERTGTO}

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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	2026-05-18T04:19:22.304970Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6c070d82dba3a30dae91c6500246669bb428795cd364dd61737985d28915efc9

Aliases

arxiv: 1004.2102 · arxiv_version: 1004.2102v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1004.2102 · pith_short_12: NQDQ3AW3UORQ · pith_short_16: NQDQ3AW3UORQ3LUR · pith_short_8: NQDQ3AW3

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/NQDQ3AW3UORQ3LURYZIAERTGTO \
  | 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: 6c070d82dba3a30dae91c6500246669bb428795cd364dd61737985d28915efc9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5ce4bd46fb99665c625cc86bb7ee9fa1646985d32d5f449c8f369d23f19a14ac",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DC",
      "cs.SY"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.OC",
    "submitted_at": "2010-04-13T03:23:53Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9189a17068bdd4ffc899ec17592e101ecef3e6697b4f7694aa2db253c2a49287"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1004.2102",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}