Pith Number

pith:M6D4PMJV

pith:2014:M6D4PMJVI7OCKPI4QE73REYQBA

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The inverse of the star-discrepancy problem and the generation of pseudo-random numbers

Friedrich Pillichshammer, Josef Dick

arxiv:1407.4208 v1 · 2014-07-16 · math.NA · math.NT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{M6D4PMJVI7OCKPI4QE73REYQBA}

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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	2026-05-18T02:47:30.879208Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6787c7b13547dc253d1c813fb893100809ea06569cb7ebf4fe597ce6457445ae

Aliases

arxiv: 1407.4208 · arxiv_version: 1407.4208v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1407.4208 · pith_short_12: M6D4PMJVI7OC · pith_short_16: M6D4PMJVI7OCKPI4 · pith_short_8: M6D4PMJV

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/M6D4PMJVI7OCKPI4QE73REYQBA \
  | 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: 6787c7b13547dc253d1c813fb893100809ea06569cb7ebf4fe597ce6457445ae

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "81f18ea04e784a883c0e7cd14e2163f854e26c32b1759e1b8558ee532bf41c3d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.NT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.NA",
    "submitted_at": "2014-07-16T06:58:33Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b048f45384c7bb92acb63aa0304e52687e59df2652a27e1d8fb1420504a2e709"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1407.4208",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}