Pith Number

pith:VDL5VDI3

pith:2013:VDL5VDI3SYRQNUMJ77KRVXQGGA

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Online Bin Covering: Expectations vs. Guarantees

Kim S. Larsen, Lene M. Favrholdt, Marie G. Christ

arxiv:1309.6477 v2 · 2013-09-25 · cs.DS

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VDL5VDI3SYRQNUMJ77KRVXQGGA}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-05-18T02:57:43.475666Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a8d7da8d1b962306d189ffd51ade06300d6e34c3dd8260157f8f59dde40aa53e

Aliases

arxiv: 1309.6477 · arxiv_version: 1309.6477v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1309.6477 · pith_short_12: VDL5VDI3SYRQ · pith_short_16: VDL5VDI3SYRQNUMJ · pith_short_8: VDL5VDI3

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VDL5VDI3SYRQNUMJ77KRVXQGGA \
  | 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: a8d7da8d1b962306d189ffd51ade06300d6e34c3dd8260157f8f59dde40aa53e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0ff79d6a2fc70a76a7b680fc630ebfc3066a0b9f85bb495f7312f45c95c52b29",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2013-09-25T12:20:20Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ca19509c83d0781b2a12d0ad8c31e84273435e7d0f3f8d9d80ddeda207055c80"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1309.6477",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}