Pith Number

pith:2DW6CA2W

pith:2015:2DW6CA2WNNLX7P6FJAQLRN7E7Y

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The Unified Approach for the Best Choice Problem Applied to Alternative-Choice Selection Problems

R\'emi Dendievel

arxiv:1511.05094 v4 · 2015-11-16 · math.PR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{2DW6CA2WNNLX7P6FJAQLRN7E7Y}

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4 Citations 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	2026-05-18T01:03:36.774839Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d0ede103566b577fbfc54820b8b7e4fe0eaa1bf3050104edce72255fb52b0851

Aliases

arxiv: 1511.05094 · arxiv_version: 1511.05094v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1511.05094 · pith_short_12: 2DW6CA2WNNLX · pith_short_16: 2DW6CA2WNNLX7P6F · pith_short_8: 2DW6CA2W

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/2DW6CA2WNNLX7P6FJAQLRN7E7Y \
  | 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: d0ede103566b577fbfc54820b8b7e4fe0eaa1bf3050104edce72255fb52b0851

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "01a94c7f3a99fe4990e718d2573eb4c541b8d4d692623f91a9fdf02b707805eb",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.PR",
    "submitted_at": "2015-11-16T19:22:47Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7c2543df55ce5bdba655f96048125c5665d48392c1a62919f47234e1c783b206"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1511.05094",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}