Pith Number

pith:CHM5N5WP

pith:2018:CHM5N5WPNGSK5E2UYA74DY2QLR

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Computing Approximate Statistical Discrepancy

Jeff M. Phillips, Michael Matheny

arxiv:1804.11287 v3 · 2018-04-30 · cs.CG

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{CHM5N5WPNGSK5E2UYA74DY2QLR}

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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	2026-05-18T00:04:37.434144Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

11d9d6f6cf69a4ae9354c03fc1e3505c7594c3df1460c168319682b347435cd8

Aliases

arxiv: 1804.11287 · arxiv_version: 1804.11287v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1804.11287 · pith_short_12: CHM5N5WPNGSK · pith_short_16: CHM5N5WPNGSK5E2U · pith_short_8: CHM5N5WP

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/CHM5N5WPNGSK5E2UYA74DY2QLR \
  | 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: 11d9d6f6cf69a4ae9354c03fc1e3505c7594c3df1460c168319682b347435cd8

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6b1ee6e388a8b272d096993c7a5fb4245f97560ebac9deef69242d0e8d38dbf2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CG",
    "submitted_at": "2018-04-30T16:02:12Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7bebb118afb9a86d4c0786b72261b2ed23a0ba69974aed78247813e4df7f2bd8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1804.11287",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}