Pith Number

pith:RGV4IZ4I

pith:2018:RGV4IZ4IYJ6KLVPN55VTRFUJKI

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Information and Statistical Efficiency When Quantizing Noisy DC Values

Antonio Moschitta, Johan Schoukens, Paolo Carbone

arxiv:1804.10402 v1 · 2018-04-27 · eess.SP

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RGV4IZ4IYJ6KLVPN55VTRFUJKI}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-18T00:17:20.900803Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

89abc46788c27ca5d5edef6b38968952304b863eed04e20c4a28e7a20c87c14d

Aliases

arxiv: 1804.10402 · arxiv_version: 1804.10402v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1804.10402 · pith_short_12: RGV4IZ4IYJ6K · pith_short_16: RGV4IZ4IYJ6KLVPN · pith_short_8: RGV4IZ4I

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/RGV4IZ4IYJ6KLVPN55VTRFUJKI \
  | 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: 89abc46788c27ca5d5edef6b38968952304b863eed04e20c4a28e7a20c87c14d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2b987105e623d4ad70821452b81d6f534358b23aa208be8b621479ab1016d558",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "eess.SP",
    "submitted_at": "2018-04-27T09:00:34Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f3a93a56480a76694a301755088b8dbc1b26b4601c53fd44b4008e4f9b32d99d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1804.10402",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}