Pith Number

pith:VLN5AB2L

pith:2015:VLN5AB2LWOFE6IUPX6D7APKIBC

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The "Thirty-seven Percent Rule" and the Secretary Problem with Relative Ranks

B\'ela Bajnok, Svetoslav Semov

arxiv:1512.02996 v1 · 2015-12-09 · math.PR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VLN5AB2LWOFE6IUPX6D7APKIBC}

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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	2026-05-18T01:24:39.075029Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

aadbd0074bb38a4f228fbf87f03d4808a3cdb0757f77f5bf390223121659e2c9

Aliases

arxiv: 1512.02996 · arxiv_version: 1512.02996v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1512.02996 · pith_short_12: VLN5AB2LWOFE · pith_short_16: VLN5AB2LWOFE6IUP · pith_short_8: VLN5AB2L

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VLN5AB2LWOFE6IUPX6D7APKIBC \
  | 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: aadbd0074bb38a4f228fbf87f03d4808a3cdb0757f77f5bf390223121659e2c9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "115c9a47a9a8a0334b8871b8cff771d47421d97590df08e0f78ca990af1539e2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.PR",
    "submitted_at": "2015-12-09T19:04:47Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7a9bbf124f36b34b74921e24a14dd249b6b7e8db233fe47c44dd3123b6c33141"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1512.02996",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}