Pith Number

pith:EZX5PZ6Y

pith:2017:EZX5PZ6Y33JPN76VPO2ADCGW6W

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Three Asymptotic Regimes for Ranking and Selection with General Sample Distributions

Jing Dong, Yi Zhu

arxiv:1705.05999 v1 · 2017-05-17 · math.PR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{EZX5PZ6Y33JPN76VPO2ADCGW6W}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:44:19.245748Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

266fd7e7d8ded2f6ffd57bb40188d6f59ccde98827c9172853391cf026238508

Aliases

arxiv: 1705.05999 · arxiv_version: 1705.05999v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1705.05999 · pith_short_12: EZX5PZ6Y33JP · pith_short_16: EZX5PZ6Y33JPN76V · pith_short_8: EZX5PZ6Y

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/EZX5PZ6Y33JPN76VPO2ADCGW6W \
  | 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: 266fd7e7d8ded2f6ffd57bb40188d6f59ccde98827c9172853391cf026238508

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "86f035324839adb77d191bacb5a2a0370b6058ce680b9895785a399a174ac4bb",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.PR",
    "submitted_at": "2017-05-17T03:56:59Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7229ed44c9976e09b3b3823d74bbafa73a357a6eaf6c0c3edf42f0ab213b8f75"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1705.05999",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}