Pith Number

pith:IW6UH34O

pith:2016:IW6UH34OID3HU27TXSQVUGWHWR

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

On the Pitfalls of Nested Monte Carlo

Frank Wood, Hongseok Yang, Robert Cornish, Tom Rainforth

arxiv:1612.00951 v1 · 2016-12-03 · stat.CO · stat.ME · stat.ML

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{IW6UH34OID3HU27TXSQVUGWHWR}

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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	2026-05-18T00:55:53.737188Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

45bd43ef8e40f67a6bf3bca15a1ac7b44f0c09b8fb3599eb208cc9f59ccd5d29

Aliases

arxiv: 1612.00951 · arxiv_version: 1612.00951v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1612.00951 · pith_short_12: IW6UH34OID3H · pith_short_16: IW6UH34OID3HU27T · pith_short_8: IW6UH34O

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/IW6UH34OID3HU27TXSQVUGWHWR \
  | 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: 45bd43ef8e40f67a6bf3bca15a1ac7b44f0c09b8fb3599eb208cc9f59ccd5d29

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7fe2f466341588d63058a9ef6e01ce757e81e10b9abc949bd17e1e2b141b0271",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.ME",
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2016-12-03T10:44:50Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b0db6bd2d9faadef746fcd570e031e0ba096b50896734de35c956e46a574bc61"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1612.00951",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}