Pith Number

pith:L7COWRJY

pith:2018:L7COWRJY4TVTZMYBN2NCASNEV7

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On Identifying a Massive Number of Distributions

Daniela Tuninetti, Natasha Devroye, Sara Shahi

arxiv:1801.04593 v1 · 2018-01-14 · cs.IT · math.IT

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{L7COWRJY4TVTZMYBN2NCASNEV7}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:03:24.735819Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5fc4eb4538e4eb3cb3016e9a2049a4afc0da1857922d0341b0efcf902e3054a7

Aliases

arxiv: 1801.04593 · arxiv_version: 1801.04593v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1801.04593 · pith_short_12: L7COWRJY4TVT · pith_short_16: L7COWRJY4TVTZMYB · pith_short_8: L7COWRJY

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/L7COWRJY4TVTZMYBN2NCASNEV7 \
  | 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: 5fc4eb4538e4eb3cb3016e9a2049a4afc0da1857922d0341b0efcf902e3054a7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "dc12e9786ca344aef13e4abcb7db5f1d8a288b31e1da20e297f1ed85d2231d79",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2018-01-14T18:18:04Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ca38cfd8876402d5eb68f511a9649f5e551817486d7484cd71ee6de99ef44a54"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1801.04593",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}