Pith Number

pith:QXAURGLX

pith:2018:QXAURGLXZBJFVSBMSXDNB4Q7TO

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Nearly-Optimal Mergesorts: Fast, Practical Sorting Methods That Optimally Adapt to Existing Runs

J. Ian Munro, Sebastian Wild

arxiv:1805.04154 v1 · 2018-05-10 · cs.DS

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{QXAURGLXZBJFVSBMSXDNB4Q7TO}

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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	2026-05-17T23:47:03.317338Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

85c1489977c8525ac82c95c6d0f21f9ba2646d9e93bd60f56055dc4535398de8

Aliases

arxiv: 1805.04154 · arxiv_version: 1805.04154v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1805.04154 · pith_short_12: QXAURGLXZBJF · pith_short_16: QXAURGLXZBJFVSBM · pith_short_8: QXAURGLX

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/QXAURGLXZBJFVSBMSXDNB4Q7TO \
  | 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: 85c1489977c8525ac82c95c6d0f21f9ba2646d9e93bd60f56055dc4535398de8

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "cdd91078cdc574e6a62a9fff4d8ca0475c9590d93524804c1fa0cb713820c5cd",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2018-05-10T20:00:42Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "08ed7bfd0bbad0b48820c30d6df9c1c37934061fd792a3306c42b00e3c972269"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1805.04154",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}