Pith Number

pith:EX5GF6R6

pith:2014:EX5GF6R6A4RASH4JDILISZGUS5

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Estimating Renyi Entropy of Discrete Distributions

Alon Orlitsky, Ananda Theertha Suresh, Himanshu Tyagi, Jayadev Acharya

arxiv:1408.1000 v3 · 2014-08-02 · cs.IT · cs.DS · cs.LG · math.IT

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:19:18.805669Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

25fa62fa3e0722091f891a168964d4976bea9eb3f48f4ab6a80070cbf06486b5

Aliases

arxiv: 1408.1000 · arxiv_version: 1408.1000v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1408.1000 · pith_short_12: EX5GF6R6A4RA · pith_short_16: EX5GF6R6A4RASH4J · pith_short_8: EX5GF6R6

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/EX5GF6R6A4RASH4JDILISZGUS5 \
  | 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: 25fa62fa3e0722091f891a168964d4976bea9eb3f48f4ab6a80070cbf06486b5

Canonical record JSON

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    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DS",
      "cs.LG",
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2014-08-02T18:52:52Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b1f0ed1a6c7155904b0ea79706458196b3c566d969a904ff2535c10f43ead1a9"
  },
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  "source": {
    "id": "1408.1000",
    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}