Pith Number

pith:HE7P5WAM

pith:2014:HE7P5WAMNUKMLC4BSWS7QYKFMU

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On the Super-Additivity and Estimation Biases of Quantile Contributions

Nassim N Taleb, Raphael Douady

arxiv:1405.1791 v3 · 2014-05-08 · stat.AP · q-fin.RM · q-fin.ST

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{HE7P5WAMNUKMLC4BSWS7QYKFMU}

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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	2026-05-18T01:06:24.814178Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

393efed80c6d14c58b8195a5f86145652a565cddc7612795f5e68989e16cabc5

Aliases

arxiv: 1405.1791 · arxiv_version: 1405.1791v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1405.1791 · pith_short_12: HE7P5WAMNUKM · pith_short_16: HE7P5WAMNUKMLC4B · pith_short_8: HE7P5WAM

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/HE7P5WAMNUKMLC4BSWS7QYKFMU \
  | 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: 393efed80c6d14c58b8195a5f86145652a565cddc7612795f5e68989e16cabc5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5f353482a57abd8b0dd0d5582e15b5ed21c93fff66eec18f88a6f29eb8732cd4",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "q-fin.RM",
      "q-fin.ST"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.AP",
    "submitted_at": "2014-05-08T01:53:03Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1d8f23ddb9251b855190c61c5b39edb7b323c07e818761979897bf1e698d0ac1"
  },
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  "source": {
    "id": "1405.1791",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}