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pith:ULPXDETH

pith:2017:ULPXDETH5FK63GZJN7DA3NMUAC

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A Fast and Accurate Failure Frequency Approximation for $k$-Terminal Reliability Systems

Alex Sprintson, Anoosheh Heidarzadeh, Chanan Singh

arxiv:1712.09666 v1 · 2017-12-27 · cs.DS · cs.NI

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\pithnumber{ULPXDETH5FK63GZJN7DA3NMUAC}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:27:07.677488Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a2df719267e955ed9b296fc60db59400b7591fce4fb245a7a47942bc8eac8f2b

Aliases

arxiv: 1712.09666 · arxiv_version: 1712.09666v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1712.09666 · pith_short_12: ULPXDETH5FK6 · pith_short_16: ULPXDETH5FK63GZJ · pith_short_8: ULPXDETH

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/ULPXDETH5FK63GZJN7DA3NMUAC \
  | 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: a2df719267e955ed9b296fc60db59400b7591fce4fb245a7a47942bc8eac8f2b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0e6213ed4266a755e65763b56b7f29abb290be2eb6a9f3a6e07849a6941e8e7a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.NI"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2017-12-27T20:05:35Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8cb5b0ed9a8663bff8229feda825dbdac563fea1f4ecfdd96e72734c349e0592"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1712.09666",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}