Pith Number

pith:Q646KZAD

pith:2014:Q646KZADUMDYSFNRDBLP4YBRVL

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The 1-2-3-Toolkit for Building Your Own Balls-into-Bins Algorithm

Christoph Lenzen, Pierre Bertrand

arxiv:1407.8433 v1 · 2014-07-31 · cs.DC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{Q646KZADUMDYSFNRDBLP4YBRVL}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-05-18T02:46:05.114683Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

87b9e56403a3078915b11856fe6031aae295a79cdb3c67c07dce45dbf9e5aa40

Aliases

arxiv: 1407.8433 · arxiv_version: 1407.8433v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1407.8433 · pith_short_12: Q646KZADUMDY · pith_short_16: Q646KZADUMDYSFNR · pith_short_8: Q646KZAD

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/Q646KZADUMDYSFNRDBLP4YBRVL \
  | 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: 87b9e56403a3078915b11856fe6031aae295a79cdb3c67c07dce45dbf9e5aa40

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4f76e3ebe5ba0a839f960b081679f61b1bb64c9e320a441c0d93b3011656236f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2014-07-31T14:27:10Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "583d5d3c9e920818ccba8e792163e0b33e0af7cb818f978b157292739fe24e43"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1407.8433",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}