Pith Number

pith:NOCWGRS2

pith:2025:NOCWGRS2M7VM5WBMLMP2RV22LS

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Random Variate Generation with Formal Guarantees

Feras A. Saad, Wonyeol Lee

arxiv:2507.13494 v1 · 2025-07-17 · cs.PL · stat.CO

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NOCWGRS2M7VM5WBMLMP2RV22LS}

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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	2026-07-05T11:39:18.277996Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6b8563465a67eaced82c5b1fa8d75a5cbf6cca6bd2bd5fde4730a0603c57aff3

Aliases

arxiv: 2507.13494 · arxiv_version: 2507.13494v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2507.13494 · pith_short_12: NOCWGRS2M7VM · pith_short_16: NOCWGRS2M7VM5WBM · pith_short_8: NOCWGRS2

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/NOCWGRS2M7VM5WBMLMP2RV22LS \
  | 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: 6b8563465a67eaced82c5b1fa8d75a5cbf6cca6bd2bd5fde4730a0603c57aff3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e68568c8de85048964fb1144f4d803c8391514adc7246dfcd35818e2f216e608",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.CO"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.PL",
    "submitted_at": "2025-07-17T19:05:07Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "454b9412ed973e58d7e945d10177c707f8457724f7517a86a803d7386f41ec38"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2507.13494",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}