Pith Number

pith:NRNYLXW4

pith:2017:NRNYLXW4YOQCNHNUH3TNVQW63M

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Prediction of the margin of victory only from team rankings for regular season games in NCAA men's basketball

David Beaudoin, Thierry Duchesne

arxiv:1701.07316 v1 · 2017-01-25 · stat.AP

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NRNYLXW4YOQCNHNUH3TNVQW63M}

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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	2026-05-18T00:21:28.917184Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6c5b85dedcc3a0269db43ee6dac2dedb311850f64b4232ade9cc9dfd7629bc53

Aliases

arxiv: 1701.07316 · arxiv_version: 1701.07316v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1701.07316 · pith_short_12: NRNYLXW4YOQC · pith_short_16: NRNYLXW4YOQCNHNU · pith_short_8: NRNYLXW4

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/NRNYLXW4YOQCNHNUH3TNVQW63M \
  | 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: 6c5b85dedcc3a0269db43ee6dac2dedb311850f64b4232ade9cc9dfd7629bc53

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1ba3d3f26792d06412761941005d549be8ef60c66517a5119b88736bb3375733",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.AP",
    "submitted_at": "2017-01-25T14:07:52Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e6c0406e470494059c548af4a8ffa46867b387f425f618c285ad01c16aa67ce0"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1701.07316",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}