Pith Number

pith:JDIWMG45

pith:2019:JDIWMG45Z6PNC4PYCC5DRLFWTM

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On the optimality of the Monte-Carlo estimator

Antoine Pinochet Lobos

arxiv:1903.06006 v3 · 2019-03-14 · math.PR

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First computed	2026-05-17T23:49:49.796851Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

48d1661b9dcf9ed171f810ba38acb69b1eda16961986e9398f12f210f403165a

Aliases

arxiv: 1903.06006 · arxiv_version: 1903.06006v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1903.06006 · pith_short_12: JDIWMG45Z6PN · pith_short_16: JDIWMG45Z6PNC4PY · pith_short_8: JDIWMG45

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/JDIWMG45Z6PNC4PYCC5DRLFWTM \
  | 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: 48d1661b9dcf9ed171f810ba38acb69b1eda16961986e9398f12f210f403165a

Canonical record JSON

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  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c379140828be714f16d7e251df549e8762200137c2c085715faddedb96bbfb5a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.PR",
    "submitted_at": "2019-03-14T14:01:45Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "325788fb47dfe0412c4529c3e1f4539b6c52f66d742a71e6bc449477ff28561f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1903.06006",
    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}