Pith Number

pith:UEPQWCTY

pith:1998:UEPQWCTYXW2PCHXSD5DF4PQUXA

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The quantum query complexity of approximating the median and related statistics

Ashwin Nayak, Felix Wu

arxiv:quant-ph/9804066 v2 · 1998-04-29 · quant-ph · cs.CC

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First computed	2026-07-04T14:47:11.912581Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a11f0b0a78bdb4f11ef21f465e3e14b80e3fbd439152e847b113386bd6e671ac

Aliases

arxiv: quant-ph/9804066 · arxiv_version: quant-ph/9804066v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/9804066 · pith_short_12: UEPQWCTYXW2P · pith_short_16: UEPQWCTYXW2PCHXS · pith_short_8: UEPQWCTY

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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/UEPQWCTYXW2PCHXSD5DF4PQUXA \
  | 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: a11f0b0a78bdb4f11ef21f465e3e14b80e3fbd439152e847b113386bd6e671ac

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7c2d03d3132d9610b1c4d9c3c2fb538f38b208fa24fc9ee51b8afa9ea4abc292",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CC"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1998-04-29T02:00:07Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4512691d773ffdce224f845bab4aded11435f2b91df8756e10ca8e7ad128c728"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "quant-ph/9804066",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}