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pith:2018:NTY6DMLZ33BKMLV562RWL33WIN
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It Is Easy to Be Wise After the Event: Communicating Finite-State Machines Capture First-Order Logic with "Happened Before"

Benedikt Bollig, Marie Fortin, Paul Gastin

arxiv:1804.10076 v2 · 2018-04-26 · cs.LO · cs.FL

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\pithnumber{NTY6DMLZ33BKMLV562RWL33WIN}

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First computed 2026-05-18T00:02:49.442127Z
Builder pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature Pith Ed25519 (pith-v1-2026-05) · public key
Schema pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6cf1e1b179dec2a62ebdf6a365ef7643799aa6ad48fafb8af36ed9ba551dfc65

Aliases

arxiv: 1804.10076 · arxiv_version: 1804.10076v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1804.10076 · pith_short_12: NTY6DMLZ33BK · pith_short_16: NTY6DMLZ33BKMLV5 · pith_short_8: NTY6DMLZ
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Verify this Pith Number yourself
curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/NTY6DMLZ33BKMLV562RWL33WIN \
  | 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: 6cf1e1b179dec2a62ebdf6a365ef7643799aa6ad48fafb8af36ed9ba551dfc65
Canonical record JSON
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    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.FL"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LO",
    "submitted_at": "2018-04-26T14:16:57Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ea4f37d43f6dadeb39dc9683d21fe7278cec86ae12268fb01dc85e40392635c5"
  },
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  "source": {
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  }
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