Pith Number

pith:K57DO5ZN

pith:2018:K57DO5ZN47YIUHGHFJJLMCKQYV

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

An exposition of the false confidence theorem

Iain Carmichael, Jonathan P Williams

arxiv:1807.06217 v1 · 2018-07-17 · stat.ME

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{K57DO5ZN47YIUHGHFJJLMCKQYV}

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4 Citations open

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:10:33.680407Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

577e37772de7f08a1cc72a52b60950c55ebc10c24da8b194cf4bb012fa557d56

Aliases

arxiv: 1807.06217 · arxiv_version: 1807.06217v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1807.06217 · pith_short_12: K57DO5ZN47YI · pith_short_16: K57DO5ZN47YIUHGH · pith_short_8: K57DO5ZN

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/K57DO5ZN47YIUHGHFJJLMCKQYV \
  | 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: 577e37772de7f08a1cc72a52b60950c55ebc10c24da8b194cf4bb012fa557d56

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "950bb9e0656b2d8cbb221af875fd2232a3208f6e99d5affb337ae2d88af42bf7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ME",
    "submitted_at": "2018-07-17T04:27:40Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "498c65d815e185b51196145140ad9c43481e3d6058f2f25493d1e486390e0bc3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1807.06217",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}