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pith:JO257MRL

pith:2013:JO257MRLBYNWHHN7FSCE5ZXSZO

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Nearly optimal Bernoulli factories for linear functions

Mark Huber

arxiv:1308.1562 v2 · 2013-08-07 · math.PR

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:12:50.238181Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4bb5dfb22b0e1b639dbf2c844ee6f2cbb6fa6d91e2a08aae040b996b39e1d7a4

Aliases

arxiv: 1308.1562 · arxiv_version: 1308.1562v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1308.1562 · pith_short_12: JO257MRLBYNW · pith_short_16: JO257MRLBYNWHHN7 · pith_short_8: JO257MRL

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/JO257MRLBYNWHHN7FSCE5ZXSZO \
  | 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: 4bb5dfb22b0e1b639dbf2c844ee6f2cbb6fa6d91e2a08aae040b996b39e1d7a4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8aa2038e34132ef6795651659fbcb88cdf388402d23cd9f1f0515e29bef729a4",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.PR",
    "submitted_at": "2013-08-07T13:16:33Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b8ff6d70408ad00e24987671bdb0bc46b3746c3be25d2c09ba1d40b3f98a6a26"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1308.1562",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}