Pith Number

pith:O3TFHUMI

pith:2018:O3TFHUMIK7AHZNQDULN6IT6W72

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The Prophet Inequality Can Be Solved Optimally with a Single Set of Samples

Jack Wang

arxiv:1812.10563 v1 · 2018-12-26 · cs.DS · cs.GT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{O3TFHUMIK7AHZNQDULN6IT6W72}

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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	2026-05-17T23:57:20.666471Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

76e653d18857c07cb603a2dbe44fd6fea02ea2f5f9cd8d6d35a0f5233af7e9d0

Aliases

arxiv: 1812.10563 · arxiv_version: 1812.10563v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1812.10563 · pith_short_12: O3TFHUMIK7AH · pith_short_16: O3TFHUMIK7AHZNQD · pith_short_8: O3TFHUMI

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/O3TFHUMIK7AHZNQDULN6IT6W72 \
  | 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: 76e653d18857c07cb603a2dbe44fd6fea02ea2f5f9cd8d6d35a0f5233af7e9d0

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1125c1e33565c930a544dce0aeb346dcc98592ee2db695a8a0aa71470d65d3af",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.GT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2018-12-26T22:31:36Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1be23cf1e036b1f666c7ed4774a146361752d18ba5e46b1214bc7324baa18278"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1812.10563",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}