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pith:QN66CVQ5

pith:2016:QN66CVQ5NMGZPP5EIPGDAP45V5

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Exact and efficient simulation of tail probabilities of heavy-tailed infinite series

Henrik Hult, Karthyek Murthy, Sandeep Juneja

arxiv:1609.01807 v1 · 2016-09-07 · math.PR · stat.CO

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:05:10.054767Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

837de1561d6b0d97bfa443cc303f9daf5a2302ae5ed043755acba82e3df7bb66

Aliases

arxiv: 1609.01807 · arxiv_version: 1609.01807v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1609.01807 · pith_short_12: QN66CVQ5NMGZ · pith_short_16: QN66CVQ5NMGZPP5E · pith_short_8: QN66CVQ5

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/QN66CVQ5NMGZPP5EIPGDAP45V5 \
  | 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: 837de1561d6b0d97bfa443cc303f9daf5a2302ae5ed043755acba82e3df7bb66

Canonical record JSON

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    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ae5661c024b36296b3221b82bf1834b1f3f0ca0fc71503f6dbc6c1278b008495",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.CO"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.PR",
    "submitted_at": "2016-09-07T02:34:25Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "25300715bdf268ad8ab485121b75f45b5fa607cc98ddc1d4c63da4f2da36967a"
  },
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  "source": {
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    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}