Pith Number

pith:MVQAGDF5

pith:2016:MVQAGDF5FLRMCQ4I26FCRJEE76

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Polynomial approximations to continuous functions and stochastic compositions

Linglong Yuan, Michael A. Zazanis, Takis Konstantopoulos

arxiv:1601.04483 v1 · 2016-01-18 · math.PR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MVQAGDF5FLRMCQ4I26FCRJEE76}

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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	2026-05-18T01:22:44.912829Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6560030cbd2ae2c14388d78a28a484ffabc833a6195affa622e42410525e53e5

Aliases

arxiv: 1601.04483 · arxiv_version: 1601.04483v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1601.04483 · pith_short_12: MVQAGDF5FLRM · pith_short_16: MVQAGDF5FLRMCQ4I · pith_short_8: MVQAGDF5

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/MVQAGDF5FLRMCQ4I26FCRJEE76 \
  | 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: 6560030cbd2ae2c14388d78a28a484ffabc833a6195affa622e42410525e53e5

Canonical record JSON

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  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "392499027bd568ec62f9cb2ad5dc476daf87b78f17c457f73b7c23a79f663d7e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.PR",
    "submitted_at": "2016-01-18T11:55:35Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4d45184e845531744fb6671fccc7397da824febcdf82ac175ab9fbc540687233"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1601.04483",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}