Pith Number

pith:Y3F6GYO6

pith:2014:Y3F6GYO64XHC2YKERCETTRG6LU

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The Probability Distribution for Draws Until First Success Without Replacement

John Ahlgren

arxiv:1404.1161 v1 · 2014-04-04 · math.PR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{Y3F6GYO64XHC2YKERCETTRG6LU}

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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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Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T02:54:54.069513Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c6cbe361dee5ce2d6144888939c4de5d036b7372664c14edd41430e83742f1b0

Aliases

arxiv: 1404.1161 · arxiv_version: 1404.1161v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1404.1161 · pith_short_12: Y3F6GYO64XHC · pith_short_16: Y3F6GYO64XHC2YKE · pith_short_8: Y3F6GYO6

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/Y3F6GYO64XHC2YKERCETTRG6LU \
  | 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: c6cbe361dee5ce2d6144888939c4de5d036b7372664c14edd41430e83742f1b0

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2a77c7eced19d3e6a55bc669dcace66d408c47bb8899c64399a86446e8ae285f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.PR",
    "submitted_at": "2014-04-04T06:15:41Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "30dc2da57bdb1fd2818f3730bd1ba6eb3578d2cd3e59abc99362393782f9cf2a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1404.1161",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}