Pith Number

pith:YGG4PBS6

pith:2010:YGG4PBS6IWA33TVH5WZJEJAF5M

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Foundations of Inference

John Skilling, Kevin H. Knuth

arxiv:1008.4831 v2 · 2010-08-28 · math.PR · cs.AI · math.LO · math.ST · physics.data-an · stat.TH

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YGG4PBS6IWA33TVH5WZJEJAF5M}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-05-18T03:53:05.192281Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c18dc7865e4581bdcea7edb2922405eb08271e47f0c8b4bec9e1dca5449200b1

Aliases

arxiv: 1008.4831 · arxiv_version: 1008.4831v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1008.4831 · pith_short_12: YGG4PBS6IWA3 · pith_short_16: YGG4PBS6IWA33TVH · pith_short_8: YGG4PBS6

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/YGG4PBS6IWA33TVH5WZJEJAF5M \
  | 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: c18dc7865e4581bdcea7edb2922405eb08271e47f0c8b4bec9e1dca5449200b1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "84f8cbcdbd37abfeb1aa254c71eceb28cf94f7094945e2fe6790a6eafc3d8b50",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "math.LO",
      "math.ST",
      "physics.data-an",
      "stat.TH"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.PR",
    "submitted_at": "2010-08-28T04:37:19Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0cf3f7476723dbc55ac841f0a5b204d7482c2186b2205c51ab33e7dc4687729a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1008.4831",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}