Pith Number

pith:W667B3ZA

pith:2018:W667B3ZAR7PMXDV6ICF2VFHCU7

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The rationality of irrationality in the Monty Hall problem

Margret Westerkamp, Torsten En{\ss}lin

arxiv:1804.04948 v4 · 2018-04-10 · stat.OT · math.HO

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{W667B3ZAR7PMXDV6ICF2VFHCU7}

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First computed	2026-05-17T23:50:28.238846Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b7bdf0ef208fdecb8ebe408baa94e2a7c22f9e4f912c6a9a4021db79988cd7ec

Aliases

arxiv: 1804.04948 · arxiv_version: 1804.04948v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1804.04948 · pith_short_12: W667B3ZAR7PM · pith_short_16: W667B3ZAR7PMXDV6 · pith_short_8: W667B3ZA

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/W667B3ZAR7PMXDV6ICF2VFHCU7 \
  | 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: b7bdf0ef208fdecb8ebe408baa94e2a7c22f9e4f912c6a9a4021db79988cd7ec

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5947fede607bb14fec1e6c16caa0829c9dab9cc153110464b7cec74c334e39f4",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.HO"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.OT",
    "submitted_at": "2018-04-10T18:00:06Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e3e570ef9596bc2d31457918297c498635be8b833c73fcb08e172529f1f51b93"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1804.04948",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}