Pith Number

pith:V5RPKOFV

pith:2016:V5RPKOFVYRK523DW3W3NITAIBW

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Should Algorithms for Random SAT and Max-SAT be Different?

Gerard de Melo, Sixue Liu

arxiv:1610.00442 v2 · 2016-10-03 · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{V5RPKOFVYRK523DW3W3NITAIBW}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:01:44.015205Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

af62f538b5c455dd6c76ddb6d44c080d8a23b8ee9d6b0e09026a78dc9c5f99b4

Aliases

arxiv: 1610.00442 · arxiv_version: 1610.00442v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1610.00442 · pith_short_12: V5RPKOFVYRK5 · pith_short_16: V5RPKOFVYRK523DW · pith_short_8: V5RPKOFV

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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/V5RPKOFVYRK523DW3W3NITAIBW \
  | 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: af62f538b5c455dd6c76ddb6d44c080d8a23b8ee9d6b0e09026a78dc9c5f99b4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3444ec7e4b961b52f1f89190eb6af1ea7947978ad0b08b3221d22de3e8cfa6fd",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2016-10-03T08:30:47Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2ff48578e61a6c57f7fca8c980a6fbd9c231b1beb989e61c118a13e963e240ca"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1610.00442",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}