Pith Number

pith:DO2UW7RX

pith:2017:DO2UW7RXY37MK5ALJCZY2EJGGB

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Computing Entropies With Nested Sampling

Brendon J. Brewer

arxiv:1707.03543 v2 · 2017-07-12 · stat.CO · astro-ph.IM · cs.IT · math.IT · physics.data-an

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{DO2UW7RXY37MK5ALJCZY2EJGGB}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-18T00:33:16.503626Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

1bb54b7e37c6fec5740b48b38d1126305e0476756eada144189d78360a2241ef

Aliases

arxiv: 1707.03543 · arxiv_version: 1707.03543v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1707.03543 · pith_short_12: DO2UW7RXY37M · pith_short_16: DO2UW7RXY37MK5AL · pith_short_8: DO2UW7RX

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/DO2UW7RXY37MK5ALJCZY2EJGGB \
  | 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: 1bb54b7e37c6fec5740b48b38d1126305e0476756eada144189d78360a2241ef

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "acef8b1fa0d218e783e2006a5b5fbfa8fe7020c66e772a2939608a8993a8f6f9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.IM",
      "cs.IT",
      "math.IT",
      "physics.data-an"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2017-07-12T05:14:43Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "bc5fa6eda087b519644eeab5007d20c7df29f3dded6500d75b6255949e9cfe71"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1707.03543",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}