Pith Number

pith:IH6PSNLY

pith:2012:IH6PSNLY7ARLYQZY6ER4BJV2JP

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A Universal Scheme for Transforming Binary Algorithms to Generate Random Bits from Loaded Dice

Hongchao Zhou, Jehoshua Bruck

arxiv:1209.0726 v1 · 2012-09-04 · cs.IT · math.IT · math.PR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{IH6PSNLY7ARLYQZY6ER4BJV2JP}

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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	2026-05-18T03:46:17.382942Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

41fcf93578f822bc4338f123c0a6ba4bd2c45927ce0861f1fdf70fbc5af278d9

Aliases

arxiv: 1209.0726 · arxiv_version: 1209.0726v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1209.0726 · pith_short_12: IH6PSNLY7ARL · pith_short_16: IH6PSNLY7ARLYQZY · pith_short_8: IH6PSNLY

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/IH6PSNLY7ARLYQZY6ER4BJV2JP \
  | 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: 41fcf93578f822bc4338f123c0a6ba4bd2c45927ce0861f1fdf70fbc5af278d9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e5e945995c12e0fbeb2cbcbab6395e42bea74c8550bc20700bbf798a6e9da487",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT",
      "math.PR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2012-09-04T18:45:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "29ff445f6827c73e1860cabb24571e7f2abc7f07af70c4a3240b8822653ffc20"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1209.0726",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}