Pith Number

pith:EJXRBLO7

pith:2013:EJXRBLO7WABAOD7CM7J24CMKHN

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Efficient Value of Information Computation

Ross D. Shachter

arxiv:1301.6739 v1 · 2013-01-23 · cs.AI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{EJXRBLO7WABAOD7CM7J24CMKHN}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-05-18T03:35:12.573275Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

226f10addfb002070fe267d3ae098a3b4e9bc12737473424998363fa034228a4

Aliases

arxiv: 1301.6739 · arxiv_version: 1301.6739v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1301.6739 · pith_short_12: EJXRBLO7WABA · pith_short_16: EJXRBLO7WABAOD7C · pith_short_8: EJXRBLO7

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/EJXRBLO7WABAOD7CM7J24CMKHN \
  | 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: 226f10addfb002070fe267d3ae098a3b4e9bc12737473424998363fa034228a4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ae9ff573754a4e4d122805781b9b6d66fd187999344c4b86de0618d45b230894",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2013-01-23T16:00:56Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "98b0bf39a659c4c489da8404f64929cca62923afc45c37a1248ed5edc1c9f7c7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1301.6739",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}