Pith Number

pith:OE2FS4MZ

pith:2019:OE2FS4MZDSWIR5G6P5RCT6L6AJ

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Guessing Individual Sequences: Generating Randomized Guesses Using Finite-State Machines

Neri Merhav

arxiv:1906.10857 v1 · 2019-06-26 · cs.IT · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{OE2FS4MZDSWIR5G6P5RCT6L6AJ}

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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	2026-05-17T23:42:13.044202Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

71345971991cac88f4de7f6229f97e0240de388511c0bc0d38b44f605bae43fd

Aliases

arxiv: 1906.10857 · arxiv_version: 1906.10857v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1906.10857 · pith_short_12: OE2FS4MZDSWI · pith_short_16: OE2FS4MZDSWIR5G6 · pith_short_8: OE2FS4MZ

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/OE2FS4MZDSWIR5G6P5RCT6L6AJ \
  | 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: 71345971991cac88f4de7f6229f97e0240de388511c0bc0d38b44f605bae43fd

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "65c0281495e913161949c2a2a2fda8632255186c4330ddf8b9e96e32bad57fd8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2019-06-26T06:10:57Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b52712a44f4c07922f80dd2af90099c61a1d0f535a6378d4fe268a2b6b4811aa"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1906.10857",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}