Pith Number

pith:QIQJC7GN

pith:2013:QIQJC7GNRIWSOZ7SXXY3UYT4FZ

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Extremely efficient generation of Gamma random variables for \alpha >= 1

David Luengo, Luca Martino

arxiv:1304.3800 v3 · 2013-04-13 · stat.CO · stat.AP · stat.ME

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{QIQJC7GNRIWSOZ7SXXY3UYT4FZ}

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First computed	2026-05-18T03:19:56.397535Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8220917ccd8a2d2767f2bdf1ba627c2e50dd6c7f4f54b6115e0041a581b01a11

Aliases

arxiv: 1304.3800 · arxiv_version: 1304.3800v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1304.3800 · pith_short_12: QIQJC7GNRIWS · pith_short_16: QIQJC7GNRIWSOZ7S · pith_short_8: QIQJC7GN

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/QIQJC7GNRIWSOZ7SXXY3UYT4FZ \
  | 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: 8220917ccd8a2d2767f2bdf1ba627c2e50dd6c7f4f54b6115e0041a581b01a11

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4db6b8191478494e0efe6eeba15e37f12decbb8fdca8ee09e0b2c82e06918f63",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.AP",
      "stat.ME"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2013-04-13T11:31:37Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9cc69b69255b26f730b46c045b11b99d7ea46ddfbffc1ecff97fafa310d8d685"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
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    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}