Pith Number

pith:ZVPUO35F

pith:2018:ZVPUO35FLYJJVT4DCGZDX7QZO6

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An optimal approximation of discrete random variables with respect to the Kolmogorov distance

Dror Fried, Gera Weiss, Liat Cohen

arxiv:1805.07535 v1 · 2018-05-19 · cs.DS · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZVPUO35FLYJJVT4DCGZDX7QZO6}

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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	2026-05-18T00:15:33.346125Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

cd5f476fa55e129acf8311b23bfe1977a25b35357004e1e98e44ff13f875b6b1

Aliases

arxiv: 1805.07535 · arxiv_version: 1805.07535v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1805.07535 · pith_short_12: ZVPUO35FLYJJ · pith_short_16: ZVPUO35FLYJJVT4D · pith_short_8: ZVPUO35F

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/ZVPUO35FLYJJVT4DCGZDX7QZO6 \
  | 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: cd5f476fa55e129acf8311b23bfe1977a25b35357004e1e98e44ff13f875b6b1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "dcdda30bdaaad92dadd5f2cbafec8756b31ef396db1e0c93268665fce5c0c582",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2018-05-19T07:38:18Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "cc6dc80e79fd08d04930b01182aa8bbf97e9a323c0daf2277122fa92b16ad1e8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1805.07535",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}