Pith Number

pith:W46KVSNA

pith:2015:W46KVSNAFMX6OIBZ5RICTDIKWM

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On Probability Estimation by Exponential Smoothing

Christopher Mattern

arxiv:1501.01202 v2 · 2015-01-06 · cs.IT · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{W46KVSNAFMX6OIBZ5RICTDIKWM}

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T02:29:45.150688Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b73caac9a02b2fe72039ec50298d0ab3187be7fcad250fda80f65309354751fa

Aliases

arxiv: 1501.01202 · arxiv_version: 1501.01202v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1501.01202 · pith_short_12: W46KVSNAFMX6 · pith_short_16: W46KVSNAFMX6OIBZ · pith_short_8: W46KVSNA

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/W46KVSNAFMX6OIBZ5RICTDIKWM \
  | 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: b73caac9a02b2fe72039ec50298d0ab3187be7fcad250fda80f65309354751fa

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c5471251bc3ee3ec9c1ae6adff6577db5d0e2033f7bf404303795554fbe4aed0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2015-01-06T15:31:53Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3ca93a30dca3745153bb6f489402865eef15a929b5fd31517788d29a3387e454"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1501.01202",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}