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pith:YLELTECL

pith:2016:YLELTECL3GNDAW7TMLP2NOOWB2

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Performance of group testing algorithms with near-constant tests-per-item

Jonathan Scarlett, Matthew Aldridge, Oliver Johnson

arxiv:1612.07122 v3 · 2016-11-21 · cs.IT · math.IT · math.PR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YLELTECL3GNDAW7TMLP2NOOWB2}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:05:00.741406Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c2c8b9904bd99a305bf362dfa6b9d60eab0ef10d3a739e5aae254c49863e0a28

Aliases

arxiv: 1612.07122 · arxiv_version: 1612.07122v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1612.07122 · pith_short_12: YLELTECL3GND · pith_short_16: YLELTECL3GNDAW7T · pith_short_8: YLELTECL

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/YLELTECL3GNDAW7TMLP2NOOWB2 \
  | 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: c2c8b9904bd99a305bf362dfa6b9d60eab0ef10d3a739e5aae254c49863e0a28

Canonical record JSON

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  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d47c8d50c458163792ed58b667349e8fd82704c58d0feb7237dd57049833755d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT",
      "math.PR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2016-11-21T10:48:27Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5e2b70544aabcf5f105ea34a8851d5db0c64f35116873c0b1838d834ac7efc4d"
  },
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  "source": {
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    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}