Pith Number

pith:BVLOHD2I

pith:2012:BVLOHD2INTZVSFA72ZY4VNBFER

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A note on a universal random variate generator for integer-valued random variables

Luca Pratelli, Lucio Barabesi

arxiv:1211.0815 v1 · 2012-11-05 · stat.CO

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BVLOHD2INTZVSFA72ZY4VNBFER}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-18T03:41:31.434083Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0d56e38f486cf359141fd671cab425245cdbd2fb0332fb92c181f597ca184e5c

Aliases

arxiv: 1211.0815 · arxiv_version: 1211.0815v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1211.0815 · pith_short_12: BVLOHD2INTZV · pith_short_16: BVLOHD2INTZVSFA7 · pith_short_8: BVLOHD2I

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/BVLOHD2INTZVSFA72ZY4VNBFER \
  | 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: 0d56e38f486cf359141fd671cab425245cdbd2fb0332fb92c181f597ca184e5c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "adbac3928c99269244cab22940ab1eb4717bbc706b4989e7a85ac5260b6f29e7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2012-11-05T10:26:28Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "04fa9dfea906522f169dbe796bb000ef8059cc470f1c4e61622e3e051136a1f8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1211.0815",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}