Pith Number

pith:VGFIXWHA

pith:2012:VGFIXWHA3V52CBUFWHO2O22VVK

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Approximation algorithms for energy, reliability and makespan optimization problems

Anne Benoit, Guillaume Aupy

arxiv:1210.4673 v1 · 2012-10-17 · cs.DS

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VGFIXWHA3V52CBUFWHO2O22VVK}

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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	2026-05-18T03:42:56.479040Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a98a8bd8e0dd7ba10685b1dda76b55aabd2c9c3b4c5dea5b3de69592aa522470

Aliases

arxiv: 1210.4673 · arxiv_version: 1210.4673v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1210.4673 · pith_short_12: VGFIXWHA3V52 · pith_short_16: VGFIXWHA3V52CBUF · pith_short_8: VGFIXWHA

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VGFIXWHA3V52CBUFWHO2O22VVK \
  | 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: a98a8bd8e0dd7ba10685b1dda76b55aabd2c9c3b4c5dea5b3de69592aa522470

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0a09b7806e6a255baef276d161fc2f2f462f57030894c1d9368c08746fb98793",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2012-10-17T09:03:28Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4b1326687fc04c12a79ccd280fed6ebfca48a82083bfd8da90cc9257087e1441"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1210.4673",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}