Pith Number

pith:DVCW6LGD

pith:2018:DVCW6LGDYKNEE3AP4JN2RJPYWH

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Consistent Sampling with Replacement

Ronald L. Rivest

arxiv:1808.10016 v1 · 2018-08-29 · cs.DS

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{DVCW6LGDYKNEE3AP4JN2RJPYWH}

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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	2026-05-18T00:06:50.134585Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

1d456f2cc3c29a426c0fe25ba8a5f8b1ed55aa25f1bc2563e3a0bcb67c54a12d

Aliases

arxiv: 1808.10016 · arxiv_version: 1808.10016v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1808.10016 · pith_short_12: DVCW6LGDYKNE · pith_short_16: DVCW6LGDYKNEE3AP · pith_short_8: DVCW6LGD

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/DVCW6LGDYKNEE3AP4JN2RJPYWH \
  | 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: 1d456f2cc3c29a426c0fe25ba8a5f8b1ed55aa25f1bc2563e3a0bcb67c54a12d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a65b5b8c02edcdf42a80a7d22ebbd68a5ee992ec3f90982fcbf2d55c96167408",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2018-08-29T19:05:48Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a2e561ecdf79a7dc24baaf1a711441e0694364c22757eef5be344d1ff2d60d32"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1808.10016",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}