Pith Number

pith:A2BT5YV5

pith:2010:A2BT5YV5JSD7RR54ZV4VBFD4XK

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Accelerated Monte Carlo estimation of failure probabilities in output of monotone computer codes

Nicolas Bousquet

arxiv:1012.1042 v8 · 2010-12-05 · math.ST · stat.ME · stat.TH

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{A2BT5YV5JSD7RR54ZV4VBFD4XK}

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First computed	2026-05-18T02:23:15.672470Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

06833ee2bd4c87f8c7bccd7950947cba8348a32f53ba05cfea257d8a20d9e404

Aliases

arxiv: 1012.1042 · arxiv_version: 1012.1042v8 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1012.1042 · pith_short_12: A2BT5YV5JSD7 · pith_short_16: A2BT5YV5JSD7RR54 · pith_short_8: A2BT5YV5

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/A2BT5YV5JSD7RR54ZV4VBFD4XK \
  | 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: 06833ee2bd4c87f8c7bccd7950947cba8348a32f53ba05cfea257d8a20d9e404

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6bab419af5173da33b73178a9606fb0c198211626f437bab51019758ac551e38",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.ME",
      "stat.TH"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.ST",
    "submitted_at": "2010-12-05T21:57:08Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "973d8378c45fbd0d76522797954d8e10918b2b343c1c35b87c71cb6aaeacf0b7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1012.1042",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 8
  }
}