Pith Number

pith:VFLPNXWR

pith:2017:VFLPNXWR6MYEQITLV4PLOXKSE4

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A total uncertainty measure for D numbers based on belief intervals

Wen Jiang, Xinyang Deng

arxiv:1801.00702 v1 · 2017-12-25 · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VFLPNXWR6MYEQITLV4PLOXKSE4}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-05-18T00:26:52.556431Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a956f6ded1f33048226baf1eb75d52272f392578b379a014ae17fd0fdb79e3a8

Aliases

arxiv: 1801.00702 · arxiv_version: 1801.00702v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1801.00702 · pith_short_12: VFLPNXWR6MYE · pith_short_16: VFLPNXWR6MYEQITL · pith_short_8: VFLPNXWR

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/VFLPNXWR6MYEQITLV4PLOXKSE4 \
  | 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: a956f6ded1f33048226baf1eb75d52272f392578b379a014ae17fd0fdb79e3a8

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4bbf99fbe47ba01278bd7beccc332324b27235a0363e4e14a63456938bd4d88c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2017-12-25T12:51:25Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "73394a29c3816adbe9db83c4e5c847ecb4c3fb30ab61bd972475a61604aeccf3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1801.00702",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}