Pith Number

pith:TWGEKTVX

pith:2012:TWGEKTVXOCEIL3OGZQ6QVE34WD

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Approximate Decomposition: A Method for Bounding and Estimating Probabilistic and Deterministic Queries

David Ephraim Larkin

arxiv:1212.2476 v1 · 2012-10-19 · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{TWGEKTVXOCEIL3OGZQ6QVE34WD}

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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	2026-05-18T03:38:44.714798Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

9d8c454eb7708885edc6cc3d0a937cb0dad36cdc6e83e85ee404f6690cbbb9a9

Aliases

arxiv: 1212.2476 · arxiv_version: 1212.2476v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1212.2476 · pith_short_12: TWGEKTVXOCEI · pith_short_16: TWGEKTVXOCEIL3OG · pith_short_8: TWGEKTVX

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/TWGEKTVXOCEIL3OGZQ6QVE34WD \
  | 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: 9d8c454eb7708885edc6cc3d0a937cb0dad36cdc6e83e85ee404f6690cbbb9a9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0318ea49d50ac1557ee06e702f86f159716d025d428d99d8b90b9128057f11c8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2012-10-19T15:06:19Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "091f3e4f55f48f77cf51cf5d5e9516de0e5315f76627fa44473b1a60212fcbe5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1212.2476",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}