Pith Number

pith:RDM3GYNI

pith:2012:RDM3GYNI2WURAPDSM7CW7YLM7K

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Fast simulation of truncated Gaussian distributions

Nicolas Chopin

arxiv:1201.6140 v1 · 2012-01-30 · stat.CO

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RDM3GYNI2WURAPDSM7CW7YLM7K}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T04:03:33.608159Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

88d9b361a8d5a9103c7267c56fe16cfa8a5ecbd2232cc8971c86425a67884812

Aliases

arxiv: 1201.6140 · arxiv_version: 1201.6140v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1201.6140 · pith_short_12: RDM3GYNI2WUR · pith_short_16: RDM3GYNI2WURAPDS · pith_short_8: RDM3GYNI

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/RDM3GYNI2WURAPDSM7CW7YLM7K \
  | 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: 88d9b361a8d5a9103c7267c56fe16cfa8a5ecbd2232cc8971c86425a67884812

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d7e4d6245678808ea8135700947655f0ab10715fab44a86b66032fa6ce8f11cf",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2012-01-30T09:39:35Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6c048a9d66fc1b051edf20afd24a23f9087542dee4bee1ff14d2bd2358733151"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1201.6140",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}