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pith:O5CHA6OC

pith:2017:O5CHA6OC3XUNILALSBYMBIDFNN

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Truly Sub-cubic Algorithms for Language Edit Distance and RNA Folding via Fast Bounded-Difference Min-Plus Product

Barna Saha, Fabrizio Grandoni, Karl Bringmann, Virginia Vassilevska Williams

arxiv:1707.05095 v1 · 2017-07-17 · cs.DS

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:40:11.399872Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

77447079c2dde8d42c0b9070c0a0656b59dbd7eaae238745a4130593add67bfc

Aliases

arxiv: 1707.05095 · arxiv_version: 1707.05095v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1707.05095 · pith_short_12: O5CHA6OC3XUN · pith_short_16: O5CHA6OC3XUNILAL · pith_short_8: O5CHA6OC

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/O5CHA6OC3XUNILALSBYMBIDFNN \
  | 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: 77447079c2dde8d42c0b9070c0a0656b59dbd7eaae238745a4130593add67bfc

Canonical record JSON

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    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2017-07-17T11:13:16Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "508c8a9ac046e2e62772208508050a84e0aafad2e260f3fb08f9ca02ed3e74ce"
  },
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  }
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