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pith:XNZ2KWJ7

pith:2012:XNZ2KWJ7QZFH3KI23XEPJR53E3
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Improved upper and lower bounds for the point placement problem

Asish Mukhopadhyay, Md. Shafiul Alam

arxiv:1210.3833 v1 · 2012-10-14 · cs.DS

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Canonical hash

bb73a5593f864a7da91addc8f4c7bb26fbc7430cb61780441e59b2bb4b1a99d1

Aliases

arxiv: 1210.3833 · arxiv_version: 1210.3833v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1210.3833 · pith_short_12: XNZ2KWJ7QZFH · pith_short_16: XNZ2KWJ7QZFH3KI2 · pith_short_8: XNZ2KWJ7
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Verify this Pith Number yourself
curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/XNZ2KWJ7QZFH3KI23XEPJR53E3 \
  | 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: bb73a5593f864a7da91addc8f4c7bb26fbc7430cb61780441e59b2bb4b1a99d1
Canonical record JSON
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    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2012-10-14T20:18:36Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "beaa7fcd563e623aabf8e7912ff9a5395f81f94ca3be9a15d0789c192c17f415"
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