Pith Number

pith:LYQ5XU4I

pith:2020:LYQ5XU4ILMYEFGXFYQCTFUXMDA

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The Waiting-Time Paradox

Mason A. Porter, Naoki Masuda

arxiv:2007.05883 v2 · 2020-07-12 · math.HO

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{LYQ5XU4ILMYEFGXFYQCTFUXMDA}

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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	2026-07-05T01:37:24.660375Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5e21dbd3885b30429ae5c40532d2ec180362deb70ecd0cd1c7363828e66c83a4

Aliases

arxiv: 2007.05883 · arxiv_version: 2007.05883v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2007.05883 · pith_short_12: LYQ5XU4ILMYE · pith_short_16: LYQ5XU4ILMYEFGXF · pith_short_8: LYQ5XU4I

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/LYQ5XU4ILMYEFGXFYQCTFUXMDA \
  | 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: 5e21dbd3885b30429ae5c40532d2ec180362deb70ecd0cd1c7363828e66c83a4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a67c18bdd7a9cc5a072e8b9b1c6c4f9cd84ef6e184a31e62404f228fc52c495c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.HO",
    "submitted_at": "2020-07-12T01:29:04Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "876e64e9386b82c42e4f33b3f99ec3d742105ad8ed986fe0bb81defb8576fa22"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2007.05883",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}