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pith:2017:C3YMHDZVCB5VRJB4PW2U7R367N
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Tail bounds for sums of geometric and exponential variables

Svante Janson

arxiv:1709.08157 v1 · 2017-09-24 · math.PR

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First computed 2026-05-18T00:34:27.827817Z
Builder pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
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Schema pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

16f0c38f35107b58a43c7db54fc77efb66fe4e941cc70db5bc52b404019f2e8f

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arxiv: 1709.08157 · arxiv_version: 1709.08157v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1709.08157 · pith_short_12: C3YMHDZVCB5V · pith_short_16: C3YMHDZVCB5VRJB4 · pith_short_8: C3YMHDZV
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Verify this Pith Number yourself
curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/C3YMHDZVCB5VRJB4PW2U7R367N \
  | 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: 16f0c38f35107b58a43c7db54fc77efb66fe4e941cc70db5bc52b404019f2e8f
Canonical record JSON
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