Pith Number

pith:2X74XASO

pith:2017:2X74XASOAIIF6NMEBE55A5KRM4

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Prophet Secretary: Surpassing the $1-1/e$ Barrier

Ashish Chiplunkar, Haim Kaplan, Yossi Azar

arxiv:1711.01834 v1 · 2017-11-06 · 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{2X74XASOAIIF6NMEBE55A5KRM4}

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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	2026-05-18T00:31:16.742861Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d5ffcb824e02105f3584093bd075516704e3324f0e22182fa2c8a53f9ef65a76

Aliases

arxiv: 1711.01834 · arxiv_version: 1711.01834v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1711.01834 · pith_short_12: 2X74XASOAIIF · pith_short_16: 2X74XASOAIIF6NME · pith_short_8: 2X74XASO

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/2X74XASOAIIF6NMEBE55A5KRM4 \
  | 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: d5ffcb824e02105f3584093bd075516704e3324f0e22182fa2c8a53f9ef65a76

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "362c1b178aa92b5a118014a28e9c9027529ab85b2fa7dd63806af34714472200",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2017-11-06T11:14:37Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "95a9517cd8e15b04b267d76569ce446e1b5b86aff7cd4d0f5dd328f45350db4f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1711.01834",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}