Pith Number

pith:G2IIMNLI

pith:2017:G2IIMNLI5JRDIES53GMEVCDOHM

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On Von Schelling Formula for the Generalized Coupon Collector Problem

Christian Berthet

arxiv:1703.01886 v1 · 2017-03-06 · cs.DM

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:49:29.391967Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3690863568ea6234125dd9984a886e3b11ca79f16a5be78ea1fefe17ec849797

Aliases

arxiv: 1703.01886 · arxiv_version: 1703.01886v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1703.01886 · pith_short_12: G2IIMNLI5JRD · pith_short_16: G2IIMNLI5JRDIES5 · pith_short_8: G2IIMNLI

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/G2IIMNLI5JRDIES53GMEVCDOHM \
  | 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: 3690863568ea6234125dd9984a886e3b11ca79f16a5be78ea1fefe17ec849797

Canonical record JSON

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    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DM",
    "submitted_at": "2017-03-06T14:15:29Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "552ea9b31f2aa19440d5e474de22faa5d65cf6170450b42aa1efd033fa92952a"
  },
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    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
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