Pith Number

pith:2X7Y3U24

pith:2014:2X7Y3U247NWDICR7UEDAWSEIEL

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Almost Optimal Pseudorandom Generators for Spherical Caps

Pravesh Kothari, Raghu Meka

arxiv:1411.6299 v2 · 2014-11-23 · cs.CC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{2X7Y3U247NWDICR7UEDAWSEIEL}

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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	2026-05-18T02:20:12.369421Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d5ff8dd35cfb6c340a3fa1060b488822c7b5edb621918de3e0718975ee578340

Aliases

arxiv: 1411.6299 · arxiv_version: 1411.6299v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1411.6299 · pith_short_12: 2X7Y3U247NWD · pith_short_16: 2X7Y3U247NWDICR7 · pith_short_8: 2X7Y3U24

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/2X7Y3U247NWDICR7UEDAWSEIEL \
  | 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: d5ff8dd35cfb6c340a3fa1060b488822c7b5edb621918de3e0718975ee578340

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c47ce9177a128bb32aece150817465d7a863fc433a9a752037b8bc716fea58a3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CC",
    "submitted_at": "2014-11-23T21:19:14Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0382e14d53fe33be7b252ff7787f6122c253d9159bbae3a7979b7773948c3261"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1411.6299",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}