Pith Number

pith:P532PKOV

pith:2017:P532PKOVBRIO4IHLJZA7XT27BD

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Even faster sorting of (not only) integers

Maciej Dlugosz, Marek Kokot, Sebastian Deorowicz

arxiv:1703.00687 v1 · 2017-03-02 · cs.DS · cs.DC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{P532PKOVBRIO4IHLJZA7XT27BD}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:49:41.050176Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7f77a7a9d50c50ee20eb4e41fbcf5f08eeabbb1287d32ac7c47b744ed33fd9a7

Aliases

arxiv: 1703.00687 · arxiv_version: 1703.00687v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1703.00687 · pith_short_12: P532PKOVBRIO · pith_short_16: P532PKOVBRIO4IHL · pith_short_8: P532PKOV

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/P532PKOVBRIO4IHLJZA7XT27BD \
  | 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: 7f77a7a9d50c50ee20eb4e41fbcf5f08eeabbb1287d32ac7c47b744ed33fd9a7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b8e0bbd746239e7424f56e557520c78557d3519c43bf221d44feb8d2a0d655b5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DC"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2017-03-02T09:54:11Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "704379d0aa6eb7de721ef607bbae11ad7ddb162f75d563634150f4baedc4538b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1703.00687",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}