Pith Number

pith:Q2VP5K2Z

pith:2010:Q2VP5K2ZCTLV7DVLGR4NO4WR6E

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How to Combine Independent Data Sets for the Same Quantity

Jack Miller, Theodore P. Hill

arxiv:1005.4978 v3 · 2010-05-27 · physics.data-an · math.PR

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{Q2VP5K2ZCTLV7DVLGR4NO4WR6E}

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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	2026-05-18T02:07:07.493242Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

86aafeab5914d75f8eab3478d772d1f12f61b9439086abf7d5a7148ae94575e1

Aliases

arxiv: 1005.4978 · arxiv_version: 1005.4978v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1005.4978 · pith_short_12: Q2VP5K2ZCTLV · pith_short_16: Q2VP5K2ZCTLV7DVL · pith_short_8: Q2VP5K2Z

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/Q2VP5K2ZCTLV7DVLGR4NO4WR6E \
  | 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: 86aafeab5914d75f8eab3478d772d1f12f61b9439086abf7d5a7148ae94575e1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b9167ea5c74cff1bdbc54aa5ec8f3ade670eea8d43625653581ec7d187d610b0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.PR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.data-an",
    "submitted_at": "2010-05-27T02:10:51Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "fb6c2b674aae0c5159f72c84f33b3a54e2d845e53b9fac657d918ced805e0ee0"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1005.4978",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}