Pith Number

pith:LO3BYJZB

pith:2018:LO3BYJZBGPK6VBHPVO43LF5JQD

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The Mathematics of Changing one's Mind, via Jeffrey's or via Pearl's update rule

Bart Jacobs

arxiv:1807.05609 v3 · 2018-07-15 · cs.AI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{LO3BYJZBGPK6VBHPVO43LF5JQD}

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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	2026-05-17T23:41:58.267988Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5bb61c272133d5ea84efabb9b597a980d5d52cea3128ddc8ba841f712b853c52

Aliases

arxiv: 1807.05609 · arxiv_version: 1807.05609v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1807.05609 · pith_short_12: LO3BYJZBGPK6 · pith_short_16: LO3BYJZBGPK6VBHP · pith_short_8: LO3BYJZB

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/LO3BYJZBGPK6VBHPVO43LF5JQD \
  | 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: 5bb61c272133d5ea84efabb9b597a980d5d52cea3128ddc8ba841f712b853c52

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "cbd1af9dd28037cd20d7d6ad3f6fc2bc7737e3977775ec27b6330f0b82342719",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2018-07-15T20:29:15Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "bd999c017a51c7501e32135f4e46b4f7a8b93a4d3ad00e3493d2f5f68598045f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1807.05609",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}