Pith Number

pith:RHEN3MKS

pith:2012:RHEN3MKSV3WDDIK3TOMAINDE5L

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Can we define a best estimator in simple 1-D cases ?

Eric Lantz, Francois Vernotte

arxiv:1212.4307 v2 · 2012-12-18 · physics.data-an · stat.ME

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RHEN3MKSV3WDDIK3TOMAINDE5L}

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First computed	2026-05-18T02:45:32.202987Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

89c8ddb152aeec31a15b9b98043464eaf984f762b931be844119f346991ddd1e

Aliases

arxiv: 1212.4307 · arxiv_version: 1212.4307v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1212.4307 · pith_short_12: RHEN3MKSV3WD · pith_short_16: RHEN3MKSV3WDDIK3 · pith_short_8: RHEN3MKS

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/RHEN3MKSV3WDDIK3TOMAINDE5L \
  | 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: 89c8ddb152aeec31a15b9b98043464eaf984f762b931be844119f346991ddd1e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "53aa481630486b9e05d3a1894cab33e74c469ee4c71e718a1fb246926121ae83",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.ME"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.data-an",
    "submitted_at": "2012-12-18T11:09:46Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "90ac559fe453e51d486c5fcdf22706d6173cc62c3ebf2a09f209054decb36ef1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1212.4307",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}