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pith:TMOL4WOL

pith:2018:TMOL4WOLWHRTIKRTXTADXWY6QQ

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The total variation distance between high-dimensional Gaussians with the same mean

Abbas Mehrabian, Luc Devroye, Tommy Reddad

arxiv:1810.08693 v7 · 2018-10-19 · math.ST · math.PR · stat.TH

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First computed	2026-07-05T07:03:15.044032Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
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Canonical hash

9b1cbe59cbb1e3342a33bcc03bdb1e84169ff61fb097d1a846b9cf89c3ef26ae

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arxiv: 1810.08693 · arxiv_version: 1810.08693v7 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1810.08693 · pith_short_12: TMOL4WOLWHRT · pith_short_16: TMOL4WOLWHRTIKRT · pith_short_8: TMOL4WOL

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curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/TMOL4WOLWHRTIKRTXTADXWY6QQ \
  | 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: 9b1cbe59cbb1e3342a33bcc03bdb1e84169ff61fb097d1a846b9cf89c3ef26ae

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