Pith Number

pith:X5UEIGTD

pith:2020:X5UEIGTDZNURVMSNDX3QIIH7T3

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Computationally easy, spectrally good multipliers for congruential pseudorandom number generators

Guy Steele, Sebastiano Vigna

arxiv:2001.05304 v3 · 2020-01-15 · cs.DS

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{X5UEIGTDZNURVMSNDX3QIIH7T3}

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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	2026-07-05T03:17:11.972245Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bf68441a63cb691ab24d1df70420ff9ed2077c6f42307ed1a880a9d16242e0ee

Aliases

arxiv: 2001.05304 · arxiv_version: 2001.05304v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2001.05304 · pith_short_12: X5UEIGTDZNUR · pith_short_16: X5UEIGTDZNURVMSN · pith_short_8: X5UEIGTD

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/X5UEIGTDZNURVMSNDX3QIIH7T3 \
  | 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: bf68441a63cb691ab24d1df70420ff9ed2077c6f42307ed1a880a9d16242e0ee

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b3fdee59677fed3a169f685e87beaae2f96e777d0674f091c4ec791981416479",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2020-01-15T13:23:36Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0eec1c2957deeca6b3406dba9b6deb033fdce3a37ca7581d2eb3b08aaac17605"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2001.05304",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}