Pith Number

pith:D377ERVS

pith:2011:D377ERVSSMPCUUFNVF4FQPQVGX

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Probabilistic divide-and-conquer: a new exact simulation method, with integer partitions as an example

Richard Arratia, Stephen DeSalvo

arxiv:1110.3856 v7 · 2011-10-18 · math.PR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{D377ERVSSMPCUUFNVF4FQPQVGX}

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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	2026-05-18T01:26:11.300058Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

1efff246b2931e2a50ada978583e1535f16f13f3429a8abbe7e074308a95c0d5

Aliases

arxiv: 1110.3856 · arxiv_version: 1110.3856v7 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1110.3856 · pith_short_12: D377ERVSSMPC · pith_short_16: D377ERVSSMPCUUFN · pith_short_8: D377ERVS

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/D377ERVSSMPCUUFNVF4FQPQVGX \
  | 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: 1efff246b2931e2a50ada978583e1535f16f13f3429a8abbe7e074308a95c0d5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e8204022b6fc22eeb17ee48d83cc7e525f2fc9134c23779f6380023272ac443d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.PR",
    "submitted_at": "2011-10-18T00:22:40Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d4db793be0af62fa52b461d36a818ac9a7d9cf6b925157028233861ba9e4fb82"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1110.3856",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 7
  }
}