Pith Number

pith:GLB56Z43

pith:2020:GLB56Z43D3ZTTBB3GI3K3SAFQS

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Why Monday never wins -- An Example of the Secretary Problem

Marc Wenskat, Peter Blum

arxiv:2006.02677 v1 · 2020-06-04 · physics.soc-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{GLB56Z43D3ZTTBB3GI3K3SAFQS}

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Record completeness

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3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-07-05T01:07:59.062608Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

32c3df679b1ef339843b3236adc80584be6180bf40090cd902581486dfaaa18d

Aliases

arxiv: 2006.02677 · arxiv_version: 2006.02677v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2006.02677 · pith_short_12: GLB56Z43D3ZT · pith_short_16: GLB56Z43D3ZTTBB3 · pith_short_8: GLB56Z43

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/GLB56Z43D3ZTTBB3GI3K3SAFQS \
  | 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: 32c3df679b1ef339843b3236adc80584be6180bf40090cd902581486dfaaa18d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "76f6a49d60cb3d717b43d4bfc44d75cd3bc2d7a896d472d6e646678d912ae6c1",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.soc-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2020-06-04T07:49:55Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "565536abc1673ef27554d471cab94ad1736e71d91e2c56b594ba79b71a94235f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2006.02677",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}