Pith Number

pith:MVJNGDWJ

pith:2012:MVJNGDWJXLF5VZG453FUNQYIR2

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Basic Experiment Planning via Information Metrics: the RoboMendel Problem

Christopher J. Lee, Marc Harper

arxiv:1210.4808 v1 · 2012-10-17 · cs.IT · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MVJNGDWJXLF5VZG453FUNQYIR2}

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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	2026-05-18T03:42:56.182552Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6552d30ec9bacbdae4dceecb46c3088ea7f5a66cbddb459444240a028518c78e

Aliases

arxiv: 1210.4808 · arxiv_version: 1210.4808v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1210.4808 · pith_short_12: MVJNGDWJXLF5 · pith_short_16: MVJNGDWJXLF5VZG4 · pith_short_8: MVJNGDWJ

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/MVJNGDWJXLF5VZG453FUNQYIR2 \
  | 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: 6552d30ec9bacbdae4dceecb46c3088ea7f5a66cbddb459444240a028518c78e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ccffafd77e1ba891cf53a6837b3b91080765ba2dd36de544ff93ce71992ee12a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2012-10-17T18:09:42Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "12d2fa120f667874be67a91308cb5332a0ae2a924a1a241c9b742b88ee57758c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1210.4808",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}