Pith Number

pith:RVFMUYNV

pith:2010:RVFMUYNVOSRA7JNLWCM4CAP3WO

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A defense of Columbo (and of the use of Bayesian inference in forensics): A multilevel introduction to probabilistic reasoning

G. D'Agostini

arxiv:1003.2086 v2 · 2010-03-10 · math.HO · math.PR · physics.data-an

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RVFMUYNVOSRA7JNLWCM4CAP3WO}

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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	2026-05-18T04:40:09.389230Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8d4aca61b574a20fa5abb099c101fbb3b615c54aa7e0b26b71b95d8344a2a815

Aliases

arxiv: 1003.2086 · arxiv_version: 1003.2086v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1003.2086 · pith_short_12: RVFMUYNVOSRA · pith_short_16: RVFMUYNVOSRA7JNL · pith_short_8: RVFMUYNV

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/RVFMUYNVOSRA7JNLWCM4CAP3WO \
  | 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: 8d4aca61b574a20fa5abb099c101fbb3b615c54aa7e0b26b71b95d8344a2a815

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b3635ced45cfa3692c4cfc1a392bbc85a529592f0e66bdb8c65c2ed6976f0434",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.PR",
      "physics.data-an"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.HO",
    "submitted_at": "2010-03-10T11:50:37Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d1647158e49b6305e59afa63923db9607cb9f7f5e01d6ac81188e4b95add1987"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1003.2086",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}