Pith Number

pith:FN34QY5F

pith:2018:FN34QY5FOJA24ONE7JC5LXJZN7

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Fast post-hoc method for updating moments of large datasets

Benjamin J. Q. Woods

arxiv:1812.09372 v1 · 2018-12-21 · cs.DS

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\pithnumber{FN34QY5FOJA24ONE7JC5LXJZN7}

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First computed	2026-05-17T23:57:28.201065Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2b77c863a57241ae39a4fa45d5dd396fc3d929092626a27d7dd3c1dacbb7f125

Aliases

arxiv: 1812.09372 · arxiv_version: 1812.09372v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1812.09372 · pith_short_12: FN34QY5FOJA2 · pith_short_16: FN34QY5FOJA24ONE · pith_short_8: FN34QY5F

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/FN34QY5FOJA24ONE7JC5LXJZN7 \
  | 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: 2b77c863a57241ae39a4fa45d5dd396fc3d929092626a27d7dd3c1dacbb7f125

Canonical record JSON

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    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2018-12-21T21:10:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "918a7dc9e59650d7a0e7b2a951a369f0e22f24b8e0f54c88203b5ef03980eb96"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1812.09372",
    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}