Pith Number

pith:TFL4ECS7

pith:2019:TFL4ECS7IG5MWUPZQ7AH3OQBCH

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Independent Range Sampling, Revisited Again

Jeff M. Phillips, Peyman Afshani

arxiv:1903.08014 v1 · 2019-03-19 · cs.DS · cs.CG

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{TFL4ECS7IG5MWUPZQ7AH3OQBCH}

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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	2026-05-17T23:50:53.175715Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

9957c20a5f41bacb51f987c07dba0111e14470a6e7d42dd44594f3dc30c5ffb9

Aliases

arxiv: 1903.08014 · arxiv_version: 1903.08014v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1903.08014 · pith_short_12: TFL4ECS7IG5M · pith_short_16: TFL4ECS7IG5MWUPZ · pith_short_8: TFL4ECS7

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/TFL4ECS7IG5MWUPZQ7AH3OQBCH \
  | 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: 9957c20a5f41bacb51f987c07dba0111e14470a6e7d42dd44594f3dc30c5ffb9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5bda55184ca62dbb07bd8f5191eaa415207d716802b581833b7614788d8ae61e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CG"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2019-03-19T14:21:43Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3ff8092e210e6a142dd74a3a9f5e5cb1941fed697eb7ddf4362c7e392ffbc986"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1903.08014",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}