Pith Number

pith:ICHXCLQT

pith:2017:ICHXCLQT3PHY5MCNIIXHYZ6WO4

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Satellite conjunction analysis and the false confidence theorem

Michael S. Balch, Ryan Martin, Scott Ferson

arxiv:1706.08565 v5 · 2017-06-26 · math.ST · stat.TH

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ICHXCLQT3PHY5MCNIIXHYZ6WO4}

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First computed	2026-05-17T23:39:42.181235Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

408f712e13dbcf8eb04d422e7c67d67708b7c70819783db94eaafd54ba36e960

Aliases

arxiv: 1706.08565 · arxiv_version: 1706.08565v5 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1706.08565 · pith_short_12: ICHXCLQT3PHY · pith_short_16: ICHXCLQT3PHY5MCN · pith_short_8: ICHXCLQT

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/ICHXCLQT3PHY5MCNIIXHYZ6WO4 \
  | 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: 408f712e13dbcf8eb04d422e7c67d67708b7c70819783db94eaafd54ba36e960

Canonical record JSON

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  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5b1318c3a723a422454b7de216d428bc7dee41f6f81946ac7900318e5056e94e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.TH"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.ST",
    "submitted_at": "2017-06-26T19:09:21Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d8fd5072860b45ce727bf01725817e467ab7785ee5b05ec3244cfeb8ae8f191c"
  },
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  "source": {
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    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}