Pith Number

pith:I24FNYD2

pith:2012:I24FNYD2TSJ6M5Q75H2IFZBIZW

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On Set Size Distribution Estimation and the Characterization of Large Networks via Sampling

Bruno Ribeiro, Don Towsley, Fabricio Murai, Pinghui Wang

arxiv:1209.0736 v2 · 2012-09-04 · math.ST · cs.IT · cs.SI · math.IT · stat.TH

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\pithnumber{I24FNYD2TSJ6M5Q75H2IFZBIZW}

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First computed	2026-05-18T03:39:28.123263Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

46b856e07a9c93e6761fe9f482e428cdab7825cb00272b1bc8e06f812edcd375

Aliases

arxiv: 1209.0736 · arxiv_version: 1209.0736v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1209.0736 · pith_short_12: I24FNYD2TSJ6 · pith_short_16: I24FNYD2TSJ6M5Q7 · pith_short_8: I24FNYD2

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/I24FNYD2TSJ6M5Q75H2IFZBIZW \
  | 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: 46b856e07a9c93e6761fe9f482e428cdab7825cb00272b1bc8e06f812edcd375

Canonical record JSON

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      "cs.SI",
      "math.IT",
      "stat.TH"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.ST",
    "submitted_at": "2012-09-04T19:04:36Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8381bbd29f745f9e2c11eba2e41fa779448faf771286fba50fee50babfbcc772"
  },
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  "source": {
    "id": "1209.0736",
    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}