Pith Number

pith:EL6NECPZ

pith:2019:EL6NECPZARO7W5H6U2GO5WKLIV

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Gambler's Ruin? Some Aspects of Coin Tossing

David Atkinson, Porter W. Johnson

arxiv:1908.09234 v1 · 2019-08-24 · math.PR · math.HO

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{EL6NECPZARO7W5H6U2GO5WKLIV}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T00:10:03.760393Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

22fcd209f9045dfb74fea68ceed94b457d01798cfec826770090138c46e767fc

Aliases

arxiv: 1908.09234 · arxiv_version: 1908.09234v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1908.09234 · pith_short_12: EL6NECPZARO7 · pith_short_16: EL6NECPZARO7W5H6 · pith_short_8: EL6NECPZ

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/EL6NECPZARO7W5H6U2GO5WKLIV \
  | 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: 22fcd209f9045dfb74fea68ceed94b457d01798cfec826770090138c46e767fc

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6a9358fc232f5df2a1c921b5395f179b67dd3e6b6505ec1a3da61ecb66e8502e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.HO"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.PR",
    "submitted_at": "2019-08-24T23:54:56Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5ade2ee80954b82736f377d78e653bb68688ab5f12f280796c871ac3f5795ccb"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1908.09234",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}