Pith Number

pith:WSI4DACB

pith:2017:WSI4DACBLHUH4SD6YVMS3YAACN

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An O(log log m)-competitive Algorithm for Online Machine Minimization

Benjamin Moseley, Clifford Stein, Kirk Pruhs, Sungjin Im

arxiv:1708.09046 v2 · 2017-08-29 · cs.DS

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WSI4DACBLHUH4SD6YVMS3YAACN}

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:24:54.351403Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b491c1804159e87e487ec5592de000134c7c04190740e912e3640cbff7c8e5a8

Aliases

arxiv: 1708.09046 · arxiv_version: 1708.09046v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1708.09046 · pith_short_12: WSI4DACBLHUH · pith_short_16: WSI4DACBLHUH4SD6 · pith_short_8: WSI4DACB

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/WSI4DACBLHUH4SD6YVMS3YAACN \
  | 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: b491c1804159e87e487ec5592de000134c7c04190740e912e3640cbff7c8e5a8

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ac5ffae0d1a7e5f7318334078a4ebe8021f8e4410d024028d1ce81de81965d6d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2017-08-29T21:57:22Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a05ccf1aa534387a09cb60bbcb1af3111238a79a904dbdd514ff21428368d40a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1708.09046",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}