Pith Number

pith:T5MMXAOJ

pith:2012:T5MMXAOJ36M7NAUL3BZAWISYKE

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An Upper Bound on the Convergence Time for Distributed Binary Consensus

Pan Hui, Paul W. Cuff, Sanjeev R. Kulkarni, Shang Shang

arxiv:1208.0525 v2 · 2012-08-02 · cs.PF

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{T5MMXAOJ36M7NAUL3BZAWISYKE}

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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	2026-05-18T03:25:25.704276Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

9f58cb81c9df99f6828bd8720b2258512b6d3897f98f32c47f93b2e422b35252

Aliases

arxiv: 1208.0525 · arxiv_version: 1208.0525v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1208.0525 · pith_short_12: T5MMXAOJ36M7 · pith_short_16: T5MMXAOJ36M7NAUL · pith_short_8: T5MMXAOJ

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/T5MMXAOJ36M7NAUL3BZAWISYKE \
  | 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: 9f58cb81c9df99f6828bd8720b2258512b6d3897f98f32c47f93b2e422b35252

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "fe3e171ab80443c31172ad8b777c1ef18ecfbb73b413258f8d8ecd8d198af616",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.PF",
    "submitted_at": "2012-08-02T16:00:45Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4068468889aba24a5b0a87ad45b58a284663e097cc3d95f98a8e8fc717de97b5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1208.0525",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}