Pith Number

pith:VBFXCOQG

pith:2020:VBFXCOQGVTHLYYICTARG6QHJ4T

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Massively Parallel Algorithms for Distance Approximation and Spanners

Amartya Shankha Biswas, Michal Dory, Mohsen Ghaffari, Slobodan Mitrovi\'c, Yasamin Nazari

arxiv:2003.01254 v6 · 2020-03-02 · cs.DS · cs.DC

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First computed	2026-07-05T02:52:56.669555Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a84b713a06accebc610298226f40e9e4daada680bd08ddb8ffc1f9eb28941cb6

Aliases

arxiv: 2003.01254 · arxiv_version: 2003.01254v6 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2003.01254 · pith_short_12: VBFXCOQGVTHL · pith_short_16: VBFXCOQGVTHLYYIC · pith_short_8: VBFXCOQG

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VBFXCOQGVTHLYYICTARG6QHJ4T \
  | 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: a84b713a06accebc610298226f40e9e4daada680bd08ddb8ffc1f9eb28941cb6

Canonical record JSON

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      "cs.DC"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2020-03-02T23:52:06Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0d3d2461b5e4f2ce57fc040f637dd3adf9da56a685baf6622a0e55d3e5953f85"
  },
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  }
}