Pith Number

pith:XMKQFYVL

pith:2017:XMKQFYVL4B2GL5A3TIX3MXKKRI

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Computable Randomness is Inherently Imprecise

Gert de Cooman, Jasper De Bock

arxiv:1703.00931 v3 · 2017-03-02 · math.PR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XMKQFYVL4B2GL5A3TIX3MXKKRI}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-18T00:45:02.529908Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bb1502e2abe07465f41b9a2fb65d4a8a2c44a56b610fa5f7d4fd461e2cba78ac

Aliases

arxiv: 1703.00931 · arxiv_version: 1703.00931v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1703.00931 · pith_short_12: XMKQFYVL4B2G · pith_short_16: XMKQFYVL4B2GL5A3 · pith_short_8: XMKQFYVL

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/XMKQFYVL4B2GL5A3TIX3MXKKRI \
  | 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: bb1502e2abe07465f41b9a2fb65d4a8a2c44a56b610fa5f7d4fd461e2cba78ac

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2e8c2578edb832cf6dc6ac09939067c48811a5e2542e69cc0796d7260c8b11c2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.PR",
    "submitted_at": "2017-03-02T19:55:36Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "094886abf9a7ae53850567f85f71dca895a0fb3163a16390d41cff22f530a1fd"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1703.00931",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}