Pith Number

pith:AAFUFQ2S

pith:2014:AAFUFQ2SGSVVV3MOUW3BOETXKW

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The probability distribution as a computational resource for randomness testing

Bj{\o}rn Kjos-Hanssen

arxiv:1408.2850 v1 · 2014-08-12 · math.LO

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{AAFUFQ2SGSVVV3MOUW3BOETXKW}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T02:45:21.144537Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

000b42c35234ab5aed8ea5b617127755b881947fbba728168cfc2502748df1d3

Aliases

arxiv: 1408.2850 · arxiv_version: 1408.2850v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1408.2850 · pith_short_12: AAFUFQ2SGSVV · pith_short_16: AAFUFQ2SGSVVV3MO · pith_short_8: AAFUFQ2S

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/AAFUFQ2SGSVVV3MOUW3BOETXKW \
  | 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: 000b42c35234ab5aed8ea5b617127755b881947fbba728168cfc2502748df1d3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0a0230be44c5efb33184671341bc92540ac28c82f93a5ab56c58eabaeb02b649",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.LO",
    "submitted_at": "2014-08-12T20:56:19Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2058b75969ae64905cf92186a450867cdf6059c86fc3c551c6fdf4b192d22ab4"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1408.2850",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}