Pith Number

pith:ELW6C7JO

pith:2019:ELW6C7JODW5SWPP2LDZMYRFVFQ

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A Prediction Tournament Paradox

David Aldous

arxiv:1903.02131 v1 · 2019-03-05 · math.ST · math.PR · stat.TH

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ELW6C7JODW5SWPP2LDZMYRFVFQ}

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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	2026-05-17T23:51:56.644462Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

22ede17d2e1dbb2b3dfa58f2cc44b52c080123c93c7303bc1d9d160d78e5aa80

Aliases

arxiv: 1903.02131 · arxiv_version: 1903.02131v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1903.02131 · pith_short_12: ELW6C7JODW5S · pith_short_16: ELW6C7JODW5SWPP2 · pith_short_8: ELW6C7JO

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/ELW6C7JODW5SWPP2LDZMYRFVFQ \
  | 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: 22ede17d2e1dbb2b3dfa58f2cc44b52c080123c93c7303bc1d9d160d78e5aa80

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "515ef02d5969bf95dda3c096802a03484a3949501d86e656165aea0b22aeedcf",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.PR",
      "stat.TH"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.ST",
    "submitted_at": "2019-03-05T15:44:47Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1c188fa8e7d9b0c2add7ba03be18b51004e9b8b271891cf7c04d84e704f74ec0"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1903.02131",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}