Pith Number

pith:NA4WIG26

pith:2014:NA4WIG26SVAOP564WAMEWGAQDZ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Increasing precision of uniform pseudorandom number generators

Alexey Gulov, Vadim Demchik

arxiv:1401.8230 v2 · 2014-01-29 · cs.MS · cs.CR · cs.DS

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NA4WIG26SVAOP564WAMEWGAQDZ}

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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	2026-05-18T02:52:06.143778Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6839641b5e9540e7f7dcb0184b18101e4e1288cdde73332d4436794b189c2b31

Aliases

arxiv: 1401.8230 · arxiv_version: 1401.8230v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1401.8230 · pith_short_12: NA4WIG26SVAO · pith_short_16: NA4WIG26SVAOP564 · pith_short_8: NA4WIG26

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/NA4WIG26SVAOP564WAMEWGAQDZ \
  | 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: 6839641b5e9540e7f7dcb0184b18101e4e1288cdde73332d4436794b189c2b31

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b8c486917fcb15acf732a58cbf331d03ccab8fd0d033aa73bb81a7e8246f5b6c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CR",
      "cs.DS"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.MS",
    "submitted_at": "2014-01-29T20:20:18Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "54e046e34335a470c90ba35c1509b28e8520b7e5e95558eb2233d7b063e9f2cd"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1401.8230",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}