Pith Number

pith:MEAFSD4P

pith:2015:MEAFSD4PCR7WSLXBU6ONGJ63J3

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Unbiased estimation of the volume of a convex body

Markus Rei{\ss}, Nikolay Baldin

arxiv:1502.05510 v3 · 2015-02-19 · math.ST · stat.TH

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MEAFSD4PCR7WSLXBU6ONGJ63J3}

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:22:14.664669Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6100590f8f147f692ee1a79cd327db4ecd48a9114eb9fa67a6615d324e44eb71

Aliases

arxiv: 1502.05510 · arxiv_version: 1502.05510v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1502.05510 · pith_short_12: MEAFSD4PCR7W · pith_short_16: MEAFSD4PCR7WSLXB · pith_short_8: MEAFSD4P

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/MEAFSD4PCR7WSLXBU6ONGJ63J3 \
  | 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: 6100590f8f147f692ee1a79cd327db4ecd48a9114eb9fa67a6615d324e44eb71

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "76e9630e1705bc62736e203e8eed48d18a31ca6de40855a6431e7e3770360fd7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.TH"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.ST",
    "submitted_at": "2015-02-19T09:33:44Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "66e877c348f31991e28d70a82ae56c0186a89e0024de660a12a0d2566eacac26"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1502.05510",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}