Pith Number

pith:QNSLJYSW

pith:2013:QNSLJYSWHB7WIVYPSDONXDZQ54

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Determinism, Complexity, and Predictability in Computer Performance

Elizabeth Bradley, Joshua Garland, Ryan James

arxiv:1305.5408 v1 · 2013-05-23 · nlin.CD · cs.IT · cs.PF · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{QNSLJYSWHB7WIVYPSDONXDZQ54}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T03:25:04.851256Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8364b4e256387f64570f90dcdb8f30ef20e0a914870b87dbb3b52eb9b4c582c9

Aliases

arxiv: 1305.5408 · arxiv_version: 1305.5408v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1305.5408 · pith_short_12: QNSLJYSWHB7W · pith_short_16: QNSLJYSWHB7WIVYP · pith_short_8: QNSLJYSW

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/QNSLJYSWHB7WIVYPSDONXDZQ54 \
  | 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: 8364b4e256387f64570f90dcdb8f30ef20e0a914870b87dbb3b52eb9b4c582c9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0ccc8e97b1003fa9e90a0524bdeff50d62013e4dd210929d34b6264d8163ea5c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.IT",
      "cs.PF",
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "nlin.CD",
    "submitted_at": "2013-05-23T13:16:20Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "19f50c1a52341fc18c9c65069f448dcecc65655090e10560ff9738a96b8f9c61"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1305.5408",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}