Pith Number

pith:4SRPG4FV

pith:2014:4SRPG4FV2RVXFY6FMI6P5AHX5N

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Optimality gap of constant-order policies decays exponentially in the lead time for lost sales models

David A. Goldberg, Linwei Xin

arxiv:1409.1499 v2 · 2014-09-04 · math.PR · math.OC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4SRPG4FV2RVXFY6FMI6P5AHX5N}

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:16:37.685494Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e4a2f370b5d46b72e3c5623cfe80f7eb78322a1820d7d56a95622cfbaccd2867

Aliases

arxiv: 1409.1499 · arxiv_version: 1409.1499v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1409.1499 · pith_short_12: 4SRPG4FV2RVX · pith_short_16: 4SRPG4FV2RVXFY6F · pith_short_8: 4SRPG4FV

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/4SRPG4FV2RVXFY6FMI6P5AHX5N \
  | 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: e4a2f370b5d46b72e3c5623cfe80f7eb78322a1820d7d56a95622cfbaccd2867

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7eedb1a1eb6eee819e7257b6d1864bad1ae34e8ec8d97c06467006ad97a65ac8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.OC"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.PR",
    "submitted_at": "2014-09-04T17:26:35Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4d541c84600e31d89659f2a7181f30230ad0683c6e6026b379649cd464229552"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
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    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}