Pith Number

pith:LCNOHCIP

pith:2009:LCNOHCIPTQH5GMUXU3QCKRNJQD

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Random numbers from the tails of probability distributions using the transformation method

Daniel Fulger, Enrico Scalas, Guido Germano

arxiv:0902.3207 v1 · 2009-02-18 · cs.MS · cs.NA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{LCNOHCIPTQH5GMUXU3QCKRNJQD}

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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	2026-05-18T01:34:36.262532Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

589ae3890f9c0fd33297a6e02545a980d95048b86f4f933c3e3fd1c2ca84ec4a

Aliases

arxiv: 0902.3207 · arxiv_version: 0902.3207v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0902.3207 · pith_short_12: LCNOHCIPTQH5 · pith_short_16: LCNOHCIPTQH5GMUX · pith_short_8: LCNOHCIP

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/LCNOHCIPTQH5GMUXU3QCKRNJQD \
  | 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: 589ae3890f9c0fd33297a6e02545a980d95048b86f4f933c3e3fd1c2ca84ec4a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "fb5cc2feb4cf2f66e63fb631a73a25c9f90af68b57fdcf703b942521e5ed6d2a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.NA"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.MS",
    "submitted_at": "2009-02-18T17:53:36Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "87caaa4578b235474d74d48a916a6784ebd853e5711928e9872c699623567012"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0902.3207",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}