Pith Number

pith:5PQITPAZ

pith:2015:5PQITPAZTYVGIX5NYRETXEY2CK

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Optimal linear Bernoulli factories for small mean problems

Mark Huber

arxiv:1507.00843 v2 · 2015-07-03 · math.PR · cs.CC · cs.DS · stat.CO

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5PQITPAZTYVGIX5NYRETXEY2CK}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications 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	2026-05-18T01:03:44.433147Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ebe089bc199e2a645fadc4493b931a12b44ad99461e39281a1d9afa13e897ed7

Aliases

arxiv: 1507.00843 · arxiv_version: 1507.00843v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1507.00843 · pith_short_12: 5PQITPAZTYVG · pith_short_16: 5PQITPAZTYVGIX5N · pith_short_8: 5PQITPAZ

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/5PQITPAZTYVGIX5NYRETXEY2CK \
  | 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: ebe089bc199e2a645fadc4493b931a12b44ad99461e39281a1d9afa13e897ed7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4ef578ecfc8b969c91a765c8a1747082f2eb52a27f91de22d5de8920a1d89d56",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CC",
      "cs.DS",
      "stat.CO"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.PR",
    "submitted_at": "2015-07-03T07:56:55Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "383d02bf5d0cc5b306949df15c4f2e6905f000f892b1c952ed1bf6a7e8caed90"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1507.00843",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}