Pith Number

pith:UJ6NYXNI

pith:2012:UJ6NYXNI7QNO4LTGOPTK2NJR2Q

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Measurement of statistical evidence on an absolute scale following thermodynamic principles

J. Das, S.-C. Seok, S. E. Hodge, V. J. Vieland

arxiv:1206.3543 v3 · 2012-06-15 · math.ST · cs.IT · math.IT · physics.data-an · q-bio.QM · stat.TH

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{UJ6NYXNI7QNO4LTGOPTK2NJR2Q}

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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	2026-05-18T03:11:47.193242Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a27cdc5da8fc1aee2e6673e6ad3531d4168087133d57a20c748dd1726c6c08ea

Aliases

arxiv: 1206.3543 · arxiv_version: 1206.3543v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1206.3543 · pith_short_12: UJ6NYXNI7QNO · pith_short_16: UJ6NYXNI7QNO4LTG · pith_short_8: UJ6NYXNI

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/UJ6NYXNI7QNO4LTGOPTK2NJR2Q \
  | 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: a27cdc5da8fc1aee2e6673e6ad3531d4168087133d57a20c748dd1726c6c08ea

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b50873d28262a04c66b8f12c247d815fc21c0878a597bab2916d0b30102d51d0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.IT",
      "math.IT",
      "physics.data-an",
      "q-bio.QM",
      "stat.TH"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.ST",
    "submitted_at": "2012-06-15T18:55:38Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0d6dcda1ef336335ea6ebca0f002eb140ced84e32b98ed56390d85e6785da912"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1206.3543",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}