Pith Number

pith:CLDNQ7AH

pith:2018:CLDNQ7AHFLSQDJNDZLFHH6NSD5

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$k$-Cut: A Simple Approximately-Uniform Method for Sampling Ballots in Post-Election Audits

Mayuri Sridhar, Ronald L. Rivest

arxiv:1811.08811 v3 · 2018-11-21 · cs.DS

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{CLDNQ7AHFLSQDJNDZLFHH6NSD5}

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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	2026-05-17T23:57:02.454515Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

12c6d87c072ae501a5a3caca73f9b21f6069f09f4942975fd413addf25e2cce7

Aliases

arxiv: 1811.08811 · arxiv_version: 1811.08811v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1811.08811 · pith_short_12: CLDNQ7AHFLSQ · pith_short_16: CLDNQ7AHFLSQDJND · pith_short_8: CLDNQ7AH

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/CLDNQ7AHFLSQDJNDZLFHH6NSD5 \
  | 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: 12c6d87c072ae501a5a3caca73f9b21f6069f09f4942975fd413addf25e2cce7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "047965a113ec1ad2118d17d9d1b34e923f7d0091e4e56d0d4e205e1698f245ea",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2018-11-21T16:26:33Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8abd0d6b02de0fa2eeb55aa1c0032801507ed48a9902c99ae98e1d93e742f42f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1811.08811",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}