Pith Number

pith:KPA6DX7P

pith:2017:KPA6DX7P4DZ5Y3QLLZ2KMY7LVT

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On Component Redundancy Versus System Redundancy for a $k$-out-of-$n$ System

Maxim Finkelstein, Mithu Rani Kuiti, Nil Kamal Hazra

arxiv:1710.09202 v1 · 2017-10-25 · stat.AP

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KPA6DX7P4DZ5Y3QLLZ2KMY7LVT}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-18T00:32:00.077546Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

53c1e1dfefe0f3dc6e0b5e74a663ebacc574098a2f89c4ab5fe1a5d1d2af6a4a

Aliases

arxiv: 1710.09202 · arxiv_version: 1710.09202v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1710.09202 · pith_short_12: KPA6DX7P4DZ5 · pith_short_16: KPA6DX7P4DZ5Y3QL · pith_short_8: KPA6DX7P

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/KPA6DX7P4DZ5Y3QLLZ2KMY7LVT \
  | 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: 53c1e1dfefe0f3dc6e0b5e74a663ebacc574098a2f89c4ab5fe1a5d1d2af6a4a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1badbe8e287ecc2345831c83f6b58c017fec261b08e0a63d22a8b3f79613b695",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.AP",
    "submitted_at": "2017-10-25T12:52:11Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "020a4200bd2f47dc0073ceb9f580f27f2314ddb3b1f37331173da4bcf44f4edb"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1710.09202",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}