Pith Number

pith:5XS34FNQ

pith:2017:5XS34FNQ77KYUEVKAVEKXM4HRG

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

An optimal $(\epsilon,\delta)$-approximation scheme for the mean of random variables with bounded relative variance

Mark Huber

arxiv:1706.01478 v2 · 2017-06-05 · stat.CO

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5XS34FNQ77KYUEVKAVEKXM4HRG}

Prints a linked badge after your title and injects PDF metadata. Compiles on arXiv. Learn more · Embed verified badge

Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-05-18T00:41:17.573029Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ede5be15b0ffd58a12aa0548abb38789b7d62e11c7108526a9b7d01e9da42d40

Aliases

arxiv: 1706.01478 · arxiv_version: 1706.01478v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1706.01478 · pith_short_12: 5XS34FNQ77KY · pith_short_16: 5XS34FNQ77KYUEVK · pith_short_8: 5XS34FNQ

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/5XS34FNQ77KYUEVKAVEKXM4HRG \
  | 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: ede5be15b0ffd58a12aa0548abb38789b7d62e11c7108526a9b7d01e9da42d40

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "95f2b2f517990704d31dddc17804c1d7566f66a1b5dbef0eefcc16fe7a7af648",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2017-06-05T18:09:36Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "24288edbe04bd9c17e906b330d100c5963e56fc53893de12fbdc383e28833331"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1706.01478",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}