Pith Number

pith:U6PLGLGP

pith:2016:U6PLGLGP2B5I6SR2MFREKHWMVF

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The Power and Limits of Predictive Approaches to Observational-Data-Driven Optimization

Dimitris Bertsimas, Nathan Kallus

arxiv:1605.02347 v2 · 2016-05-08 · math.OC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{U6PLGLGP2B5I6SR2MFREKHWMVF}

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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	2026-05-18T00:44:09.649495Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a79eb32ccfd07a8f4a3a6162451ecca976f9d3d47f666d5f8411296857d6b0ac

Aliases

arxiv: 1605.02347 · arxiv_version: 1605.02347v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1605.02347 · pith_short_12: U6PLGLGP2B5I · pith_short_16: U6PLGLGP2B5I6SR2 · pith_short_8: U6PLGLGP

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/U6PLGLGP2B5I6SR2MFREKHWMVF \
  | 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: a79eb32ccfd07a8f4a3a6162451ecca976f9d3d47f666d5f8411296857d6b0ac

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "fb479b5f15746837d0acd11c13c4bbd2f327925f252b91c2bb0923e34f9abda5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.OC",
    "submitted_at": "2016-05-08T18:52:55Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "153d1ce3253259edff1bb5ff4ef71a06bddc134a257034d26f8fba13dd465d64"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1605.02347",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}