Pith Number

pith:MBT6O2KE

pith:2016:MBT6O2KEIM3W2VQRSJ3D2DZ3DN

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Predicting with Distributions

Michael Kearns, Zhiwei Steven Wu

arxiv:1606.01275 v3 · 2016-06-03 · cs.DS · cs.LG

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MBT6O2KEIM3W2VQRSJ3D2DZ3DN}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-18T00:42:44.396336Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6067e7694443376d561192763d0f3b1b4d7797e05057d71ddd0834722d660972

Aliases

arxiv: 1606.01275 · arxiv_version: 1606.01275v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1606.01275 · pith_short_12: MBT6O2KEIM3W · pith_short_16: MBT6O2KEIM3W2VQR · pith_short_8: MBT6O2KE

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/MBT6O2KEIM3W2VQRSJ3D2DZ3DN \
  | 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: 6067e7694443376d561192763d0f3b1b4d7797e05057d71ddd0834722d660972

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a71ebf56e6fa6a3923c13cfa0b9746ef8e48712898b9983f307dd23c2f555790",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2016-06-03T20:56:51Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "366780f3cb50e2aa3dc6308b35ac81b3cb5868a7c5b6ef3f238c7bccf435ce41"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1606.01275",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}