Pith Number

pith:ABSORSP2

pith:2017:ABSORSP273NM3I4XQVTS3733QY

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A Coupon-Collector Model of Machine-Aided Discovery

Aditya Vempaty, Lav R. Varshney, Pramod K. Varshney

arxiv:1708.03833 v1 · 2017-08-13 · stat.AP

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ABSORSP273NM3I4XQVTS3733QY}

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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	2026-05-18T00:38:07.759867Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0064e8c9fafedacda39785672dff7b8638fd48a9fe72f52a465005aa754a9c64

Aliases

arxiv: 1708.03833 · arxiv_version: 1708.03833v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1708.03833 · pith_short_12: ABSORSP273NM · pith_short_16: ABSORSP273NM3I4X · pith_short_8: ABSORSP2

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/ABSORSP273NM3I4XQVTS3733QY \
  | 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: 0064e8c9fafedacda39785672dff7b8638fd48a9fe72f52a465005aa754a9c64

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a2f90929d9d6ec0776d38736c548ed724f3c6f8d375bb9ad2ff703adbd0365f7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.AP",
    "submitted_at": "2017-08-13T00:43:28Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "472b1d7ac6889c228245afdc053fc2d4be8c37b1a217214d4e5f077ca88a3fd0"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1708.03833",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}