Pith Number

pith:LKK4Z2U5

pith:2012:LKK4Z2U5S4TVVUOQ3QO5CFCAVG

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Uncertainties and Ambiguities in Percentiles and how to Avoid Them

Michael Schreiber

arxiv:1205.3588 v1 · 2012-05-16 · stat.OT · cs.DL · physics.soc-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{LKK4Z2U5S4TVVUOQ3QO5CFCAVG}

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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	2026-05-18T03:55:34.701250Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5a95ccea9d97275ad1d0dc1dd11440a9ac2571410e44bd03e1ff134459b1dcb9

Aliases

arxiv: 1205.3588 · arxiv_version: 1205.3588v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1205.3588 · pith_short_12: LKK4Z2U5S4TV · pith_short_16: LKK4Z2U5S4TVVUOQ · pith_short_8: LKK4Z2U5

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/LKK4Z2U5S4TVVUOQ3QO5CFCAVG \
  | 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: 5a95ccea9d97275ad1d0dc1dd11440a9ac2571410e44bd03e1ff134459b1dcb9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2e925a8eb8d37ba1e2b544ed8d9248c4c9d4e446cb9eeab4ae72c762cc7680d0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DL",
      "physics.soc-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.OT",
    "submitted_at": "2012-05-16T08:13:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0babc47726543ddabcfd7277d6621c7ca69b103adc6c88f897f83b13bac4ebd8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1205.3588",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}