Pith Number

pith:Q7KQ4CRU

pith:2016:Q7KQ4CRUSZVG2HYLRNOUCC6EIY

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An n-bit general implementation of Shor's quantum period-finding algorithm

Christopher J. Rickerd, Durdu O. Guney, J. T. Davies, Mike A. Grimes

arxiv:1612.07424 v1 · 2016-12-22 · quant-ph

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\pithnumber{Q7KQ4CRUSZVG2HYLRNOUCC6EIY}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:54:10.052876Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

87d50e0a34966a6d1f0b8b5d410bc44614bebf9bce55ffa222786a85f3af4cd9

Aliases

arxiv: 1612.07424 · arxiv_version: 1612.07424v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1612.07424 · pith_short_12: Q7KQ4CRUSZVG · pith_short_16: Q7KQ4CRUSZVG2HYL · pith_short_8: Q7KQ4CRU

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/Q7KQ4CRUSZVG2HYLRNOUCC6EIY \
  | 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: 87d50e0a34966a6d1f0b8b5d410bc44614bebf9bce55ffa222786a85f3af4cd9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "22d9ebbd916d6163f868173f8c9806de86b83960d254960b31fc24b6587145f3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2016-12-22T03:06:38Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b46dd4b7addfdeececbc65222921aaf43cc47f216b2f2156ad74e7f84349455a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1612.07424",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}