Pith Number

pith:VWP44UF4

pith:2016:VWP44UF4G4G2HBUJB6NWA6JEX7

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Semantics for probabilistic programming: higher-order functions, continuous distributions, and soft constraints

Chris Heunen, Frank Wood, Hongseok Yang, Ohad Kammar, Sam Staton

arxiv:1601.04943 v3 · 2016-01-19 · cs.PL · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VWP44UF4G4G2HBUJB6NWA6JEX7}

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4 Citations open

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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	2026-05-18T00:47:38.300714Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ad9fce50bc370da386890f9b607924bffaa1df66cd86cbaaaeccb1520c222916

Aliases

arxiv: 1601.04943 · arxiv_version: 1601.04943v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1601.04943 · pith_short_12: VWP44UF4G4G2 · pith_short_16: VWP44UF4G4G2HBUJ · pith_short_8: VWP44UF4

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VWP44UF4G4G2HBUJB6NWA6JEX7 \
  | 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: ad9fce50bc370da386890f9b607924bffaa1df66cd86cbaaaeccb1520c222916

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6587d4b44deb0db59551a01b371096a384e366859fb4500c5ce1d36cfe604352",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.PL",
    "submitted_at": "2016-01-19T14:53:54Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8337ddf1a328f376d6f643e10e5c64755192708d97d31e19d6208477b3b31194"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1601.04943",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}