Pith Number

pith:ZWJDLNKD

pith:2017:ZWJDLNKDSLMHXYQ5LLTBONIT4A

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Optimal Query Time for Encoding Range Majority

Patrick K. Nicholson, Pawel Gawrychowski

arxiv:1704.06149 v1 · 2017-04-20 · 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{ZWJDLNKDSLMHXYQ5LLTBONIT4A}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-05-18T00:46:03.156524Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

cd9235b54392d87be21d5ae6173513e019390156f1ef82d58d3c6f0c329727ab

Aliases

arxiv: 1704.06149 · arxiv_version: 1704.06149v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1704.06149 · pith_short_12: ZWJDLNKDSLMH · pith_short_16: ZWJDLNKDSLMHXYQ5 · pith_short_8: ZWJDLNKD

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/ZWJDLNKDSLMHXYQ5LLTBONIT4A \
  | 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: cd9235b54392d87be21d5ae6173513e019390156f1ef82d58d3c6f0c329727ab

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "42ada8a91321a15984560124735e6858e20fb3865a5ad24a0213b6cca3b0ad74",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2017-04-20T14:03:31Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3f963f80e268deb716b0e9728c5e9a11b5a04fd29a097877ff386262375c2a12"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1704.06149",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}