Pith Number

pith:6T5YS2DS

pith:2026:6T5YS2DSU2R2YLVEDDCAC2SIWG

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A general framework for computation and estimation using the saddlepoint approximation

Godrick Oketch, Jesse Goodman, Rachel M. Fewster

arxiv:2607.17464 v1 · 2026-07-20 · stat.CO · stat.ME

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{6T5YS2DSU2R2YLVEDDCAC2SIWG}

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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	2026-07-21T01:21:34.107656Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f4fb896872a6a3ac2ea418c4016a48b1a014026a3ca96065cc1cce6e4b83b84b

Aliases

arxiv: 2607.17464 · arxiv_version: 2607.17464v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2607.17464 · pith_short_12: 6T5YS2DSU2R2 · pith_short_16: 6T5YS2DSU2R2YLVE · pith_short_8: 6T5YS2DS

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/6T5YS2DSU2R2YLVEDDCAC2SIWG \
  | 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: f4fb896872a6a3ac2ea418c4016a48b1a014026a3ca96065cc1cce6e4b83b84b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ea831c4e8600226f8f952a2b7b56c8c04805145e85b87f7f59d92b6e1d8fb0fe",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.ME"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2026-07-20T01:31:22Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d55d2f3cd5e4c84afff2b6f5e3c3040e51f1198b8edc848c40c8cab55edeb723"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2607.17464",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}