Pith Number

pith:L4HBYV4I

pith:2017:L4HBYV4I3PKBLTZLG4PFVEQYFZ

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Shannon Entropy Estimation in $\infty$-Alphabets from Convergence Results

Jorge F. Silva

arxiv:1710.06835 v2 · 2017-08-27 · cs.IT · cs.LG · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{L4HBYV4I3PKBLTZLG4PFVEQYFZ}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:19:41.715265Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5f0e1c5788dbd415cf2b371e5a92182e6538dbcd759df769e9a8dbba453009bb

Aliases

arxiv: 1710.06835 · arxiv_version: 1710.06835v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1710.06835 · pith_short_12: L4HBYV4I3PKB · pith_short_16: L4HBYV4I3PKBLTZL · pith_short_8: L4HBYV4I

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/L4HBYV4I3PKBLTZLG4PFVEQYFZ \
  | 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: 5f0e1c5788dbd415cf2b371e5a92182e6538dbcd759df769e9a8dbba453009bb

Canonical record JSON

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    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG",
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2017-08-27T19:54:18Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7dd08986675e8d45ef0f395b10d16e619c285733cd17514ca9e3eef4910ace98"
  },
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  "source": {
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    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}