Pith Number

pith:RJIIF2U7

pith:2012:RJIIF2U7YRRSKUBROG5MDHZRGH

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A New Random Coding Technique that Generalizes Superposition Coding and Binning

Stefano Rini

arxiv:1202.0959 v2 · 2012-02-05 · cs.IT · math.IT

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\pithnumber{RJIIF2U7YRRSKUBROG5MDHZRGH}

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First computed	2026-05-18T04:02:53.880713Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8a5082ea9fc46325503171bac19f3131d2f716703fe06930d044470efe051add

Aliases

arxiv: 1202.0959 · arxiv_version: 1202.0959v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1202.0959 · pith_short_12: RJIIF2U7YRRS · pith_short_16: RJIIF2U7YRRSKUBR · pith_short_8: RJIIF2U7

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/RJIIF2U7YRRSKUBROG5MDHZRGH \
  | 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: 8a5082ea9fc46325503171bac19f3131d2f716703fe06930d044470efe051add

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4c4445272799f56d98087ea811cc1565c26d4c26a0c5d0484af04f1c0213f492",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2012-02-05T12:46:39Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f59d5c7564ad34cbb3eb71b6bd20415a13ef5233d6ee58a51d80c6cc808dc084"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1202.0959",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}