Pith Number

pith:ZQ6OC46P

pith:2015:ZQ6OC46PFYQMMINDNKKVZMWKCK

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Sorting and Selection with Imprecise Comparisons

Avinatan Hassidim, Jelani Nelson, Miklos Ajtai, Vitaly Feldman

arxiv:1501.02911 v1 · 2015-01-13 · cs.DS

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZQ6OC46PFYQMMINDNKKVZMWKCK}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-05-18T02:29:30.932525Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

cc3ce173cf2e20c621a36a955cb2ca1287d4f8d81805e19b32a44c1a64ba3b44

Aliases

arxiv: 1501.02911 · arxiv_version: 1501.02911v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1501.02911 · pith_short_12: ZQ6OC46PFYQM · pith_short_16: ZQ6OC46PFYQMMIND · pith_short_8: ZQ6OC46P

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/ZQ6OC46PFYQMMINDNKKVZMWKCK \
  | 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: cc3ce173cf2e20c621a36a955cb2ca1287d4f8d81805e19b32a44c1a64ba3b44

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c1f7151131bcdac48473cb0d04e6bd64e384a462ef0bf007a3cd188eaef201d3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2015-01-13T08:24:19Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e5a4e8a4eea2cf0b5b55c01884ae8f26415c6a5e2275d0d0f61536eac10ec560"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1501.02911",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}