Pith Number

pith:QOYTVPLP

pith:2012:QOYTVPLP4TNTA5WTP55UTXYEJP

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

An experimental study of exhaustive solutions for the Mastermind puzzle

Antonio M. Mora, Carlos Cotta, J. J. Merelo, Thomas P. Runarsson

arxiv:1207.1315 v1 · 2012-07-05 · cs.NE · math.OC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{QOYTVPLP4TNTA5WTP55UTXYEJP}

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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	2026-05-18T03:51:46.372468Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

83b13abd6fe4db3076d37f7b49df044bf643b66f2668db986398ca1dc67a5038

Aliases

arxiv: 1207.1315 · arxiv_version: 1207.1315v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1207.1315 · pith_short_12: QOYTVPLP4TNT · pith_short_16: QOYTVPLP4TNTA5WT · pith_short_8: QOYTVPLP

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/QOYTVPLP4TNTA5WTP55UTXYEJP \
  | 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: 83b13abd6fe4db3076d37f7b49df044bf643b66f2668db986398ca1dc67a5038

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "594d1bc4228b9ea63f38e32ba1a6973f1127a1952a7b7fc1a42b4365579cc061",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.OC"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.NE",
    "submitted_at": "2012-07-05T18:09:59Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "22ef414987ec19cbb095d729dba4e7194cc0a59dc939ebdd0336faa1e1021cdb"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1207.1315",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}