Pith Number

pith:WVANOQ47

pith:2013:WVANOQ47BQHSEA54VC6YN4JYPN

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A Protocol for Generating Random Elements with their Probabilities

Robin K\"unzler, Thomas Holenstein

arxiv:1312.2483 v2 · 2013-12-09 · cs.CC · cs.CR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WVANOQ47BQHSEA54VC6YN4JYPN}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-05-18T02:55:48.101935Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b540d7439f0c0f2203bca8bd86f1387b4470c2e7d86b38e214f914f69acf22eb

Aliases

arxiv: 1312.2483 · arxiv_version: 1312.2483v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1312.2483 · pith_short_12: WVANOQ47BQHS · pith_short_16: WVANOQ47BQHSEA54 · pith_short_8: WVANOQ47

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/WVANOQ47BQHSEA54VC6YN4JYPN \
  | 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: b540d7439f0c0f2203bca8bd86f1387b4470c2e7d86b38e214f914f69acf22eb

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b129db6fbeed51f580b695f50c1d4984dd19d00b715366c60f19c36aac9879e3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CC",
    "submitted_at": "2013-12-09T16:02:40Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "42f3caff655b4c03b862171c68197277c1ca2ca200599d514b13f38c5d55722b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1312.2483",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}