Pith Number

pith:AW2WXH2Y

pith:2018:AW2WXH2Y7U2M6BUQ4TWV5OUDRC

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Bayesian Tabulation Audits: Explained and Extended

Ronald L. Rivest

arxiv:1801.00528 v2 · 2018-01-02 · cs.CR · cs.CY · stat.AP

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{AW2WXH2Y7U2M6BUQ4TWV5OUDRC}

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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	2026-05-18T00:23:52.277645Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

05b56b9f58fd34cf0690e4ed5eba8388869e33caaf3d33876e3c55ba2d771b61

Aliases

arxiv: 1801.00528 · arxiv_version: 1801.00528v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1801.00528 · pith_short_12: AW2WXH2Y7U2M · pith_short_16: AW2WXH2Y7U2M6BUQ · pith_short_8: AW2WXH2Y

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/AW2WXH2Y7U2M6BUQ4TWV5OUDRC \
  | 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: 05b56b9f58fd34cf0690e4ed5eba8388869e33caaf3d33876e3c55ba2d771b61

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3dfadbcba31b224b444f7f9e1bc7c6a3e2b0ed79be0d9be62f006c501e6b4747",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CY",
      "stat.AP"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2018-01-02T00:00:15Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7e481335c1d53425129f72a6f7c58c170a1819295e70581e42f7831eccb9a9a5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1801.00528",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}