Pith Number

pith:5XABPBIK

pith:2014:5XABPBIKOGUSGH3XZUCM75J7BU

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On Stochastic Comparison Between Two Coherent Systems

Asok K. Nanda, Nil Kamal Hazra

arxiv:1404.3008 v2 · 2014-04-11 · stat.AP

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5XABPBIKOGUSGH3XZUCM75J7BU}

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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	2026-05-18T01:22:43.674274Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

edc017850a71a9231f77cd04cff53f0d0c6c8de92358baa0aa936197f717b26a

Aliases

arxiv: 1404.3008 · arxiv_version: 1404.3008v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1404.3008 · pith_short_12: 5XABPBIKOGUS · pith_short_16: 5XABPBIKOGUSGH3X · pith_short_8: 5XABPBIK

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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/5XABPBIKOGUSGH3XZUCM75J7BU \
  | 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: edc017850a71a9231f77cd04cff53f0d0c6c8de92358baa0aa936197f717b26a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e889b0c672aaa6bed8c38d41ebe577fe0e55fcccbf799fe2d871724b8caefe67",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.AP",
    "submitted_at": "2014-04-11T06:05:51Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7f4f5a5b8d205e50731f09f3216cfffd8c8705057f3d5fbdf435338011ff86dc"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1404.3008",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}