Pith Number

pith:OVF6RGFS

pith:2018:OVF6RGFSJMAZZNOY6PENNAAH5U

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Improved Bit-Flipping Algorithm for Successive Cancellation Decoding of Polar Codes

Carlo Condo, Furkan Ercan, Warren J. Gross

arxiv:1808.03616 v2 · 2018-08-10 · cs.IT · math.IT

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\pithnumber{OVF6RGFSJMAZZNOY6PENNAAH5U}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:04:39.136504Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

754be898b24b019cb5d8f3c8d68007ed2422fea6b766141556d6db3d70bc326c

Aliases

arxiv: 1808.03616 · arxiv_version: 1808.03616v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1808.03616 · pith_short_12: OVF6RGFSJMAZ · pith_short_16: OVF6RGFSJMAZZNOY · pith_short_8: OVF6RGFS

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/OVF6RGFSJMAZZNOY6PENNAAH5U \
  | 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: 754be898b24b019cb5d8f3c8d68007ed2422fea6b766141556d6db3d70bc326c

Canonical record JSON

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  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6ae937bd442c9df9e9133fcf2b9896c5e4bf65c7b0d7114046097591b065c4a9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2018-08-10T16:47:47Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6dfa071ba0da4d560fc06facf473a151de9705f24f9b7c11e33dc78dd3568a79"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1808.03616",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}