Pith Number

pith:3AHOTEKW

pith:2013:3AHOTEKWZ3OACK75DNCAS5ZBEU

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A Linear Approximation Method for Probabilistic Inference

Ross D. Shachter

arxiv:1304.2373 v1 · 2013-03-27 · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3AHOTEKWZ3OACK75DNCAS5ZBEU}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T03:28:32.320147Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d80ee99156cedc012bfd1b440977212522262c2ddc11193c23ea00cc91af70be

Aliases

arxiv: 1304.2373 · arxiv_version: 1304.2373v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1304.2373 · pith_short_12: 3AHOTEKWZ3OA · pith_short_16: 3AHOTEKWZ3OACK75 · pith_short_8: 3AHOTEKW

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/3AHOTEKWZ3OACK75DNCAS5ZBEU \
  | 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: d80ee99156cedc012bfd1b440977212522262c2ddc11193c23ea00cc91af70be

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4936ffbe3233319569e39c6d90ccff68d2454a545cad66d3d916ba4dd0598006",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2013-03-27T19:44:52Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "445d7e40e455ff82d57fe93aa2d8db61b167143b53bb0cd9ec0132ea3eef7856"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1304.2373",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}