Pith Number

pith:ZT223444

pith:2018:ZT2234443HHMMLLBA46JMK7GE2

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Timeliness in Lossless Block Coding

Jing Zhong, Roy D. Yates

arxiv:1802.09167 v1 · 2018-02-26 · cs.IT · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZT2234443HHMMLLBA46JMK7GE2}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-18T00:22:34.523369Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ccf5adf39cd9cec62d61073c962be626a7ddc055cde4c8589c0b15aa1891f2c6

Aliases

arxiv: 1802.09167 · arxiv_version: 1802.09167v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1802.09167 · pith_short_12: ZT2234443HHM · pith_short_16: ZT2234443HHMMLLB · pith_short_8: ZT223444

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/ZT2234443HHMMLLBA46JMK7GE2 \
  | 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: ccf5adf39cd9cec62d61073c962be626a7ddc055cde4c8589c0b15aa1891f2c6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "27ab4a24fc029c3ac231a472ba8f6984d3fea904c73d74180395796129016dbc",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2018-02-26T05:21:19Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "69ac4eba838006e68487d3065b05ba0add7c26a1b5e29563c9069c5e35ae53b6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1802.09167",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}