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pith:ZO25V2XL

pith:2024:ZO25V2XLFEOMJXB6AOOZODUHS3

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Arithmetic Without Algorithms: Language Models Solve Math With a Bag of Heuristics

Aaron Mueller, Anja Reusch, Yaniv Nikankin, Yonatan Belinkov

arxiv:2410.21272 v2 · 2024-10-28 · cs.CL

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First computed	2026-07-05T11:06:09.522237Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
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Canonical hash

cbb5daeaeb291cc4dc3e039d970e8796d0950e47123672914c8c86ac67c06e8d

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arxiv: 2410.21272 · arxiv_version: 2410.21272v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2410.21272 · pith_short_12: ZO25V2XLFEOM · pith_short_16: ZO25V2XLFEOMJXB6 · pith_short_8: ZO25V2XL

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/ZO25V2XLFEOMJXB6AOOZODUHS3 \
  | 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: cbb5daeaeb291cc4dc3e039d970e8796d0950e47123672914c8c86ac67c06e8d

Canonical record JSON

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    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2024-10-28T17:59:06Z",
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  },
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