Pith Number

pith:RWSDNI7S

pith:2011:RWSDNI7SRW3FE24MRELJ2MF6CE

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Numerical Evaluation of Algorithmic Complexity for Short Strings: A Glance into the Innermost Structure of Randomness

Hector Zenil, Jean-Paul Delahaye

arxiv:1101.4795 v5 · 2011-01-25 · cs.IT · cs.CC · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RWSDNI7SRW3FE24MRELJ2MF6CE}

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First computed	2026-05-18T02:22:49.869286Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8da436a3f28db6526b8c89169d30be11092ac7777d8bc170840f1f7e02acd3aa

Aliases

arxiv: 1101.4795 · arxiv_version: 1101.4795v5 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1101.4795 · pith_short_12: RWSDNI7SRW3F · pith_short_16: RWSDNI7SRW3FE24M · pith_short_8: RWSDNI7S

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/RWSDNI7SRW3FE24MRELJ2MF6CE \
  | 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: 8da436a3f28db6526b8c89169d30be11092ac7777d8bc170840f1f7e02acd3aa

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ae40faca3834871714896cd0ca6ecfe70b5d779038a72745d9587d352ec9a521",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CC",
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2011-01-25T12:50:23Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "78e4a9c1c565f080dd6e19cb449fca7bd028eb2865d7e96503fe6bbaa39a3f56"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1101.4795",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 5
  }
}