Pith Number

pith:C2XT3ZMD

pith:2014:C2XT3ZMDW43475DWFACSGFCAZ3

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Software Alchemy: Turning Complex Statistical Computations into Embarrassingly-Parallel Ones

Norman Matloff

arxiv:1409.5827 v1 · 2014-09-19 · stat.CO

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{C2XT3ZMDW43475DWFACSGFCAZ3}

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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	2026-05-18T02:42:15.927403Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

16af3de583b737cff4762805231440ced10c6308d12951c55e07ab75b47168ab

Aliases

arxiv: 1409.5827 · arxiv_version: 1409.5827v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1409.5827 · pith_short_12: C2XT3ZMDW434 · pith_short_16: C2XT3ZMDW43475DW · pith_short_8: C2XT3ZMD

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/C2XT3ZMDW43475DWFACSGFCAZ3 \
  | 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: 16af3de583b737cff4762805231440ced10c6308d12951c55e07ab75b47168ab

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a24d49651b75f5cf5f52c024d77c477abc112699b77ea125647a8cc348e1aaed",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2014-09-19T22:34:29Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "11bc3f9ebd46261c4f2b8bf1944472ba5bd3eb30737c8ed0d99edfc4716f8952"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1409.5827",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}