Pith Number

pith:PHBUNOVM

pith:2016:PHBUNOVM6MOEFLJNXMFTA5DX64

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A new rule for almost-certain termination of probabilistic- and demonic programs

Annabelle McIver, Carroll Morgan

arxiv:1612.01091 v2 · 2016-12-04 · cs.LO

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{PHBUNOVM6MOEFLJNXMFTA5DX64}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:53:17.038180Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

79c346baacf31c42ad2dbb0b307477f721a44ab11c0da40cdae1fa48d6a2f860

Aliases

arxiv: 1612.01091 · arxiv_version: 1612.01091v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1612.01091 · pith_short_12: PHBUNOVM6MOE · pith_short_16: PHBUNOVM6MOEFLJN · pith_short_8: PHBUNOVM

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/PHBUNOVM6MOEFLJNXMFTA5DX64 \
  | 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: 79c346baacf31c42ad2dbb0b307477f721a44ab11c0da40cdae1fa48d6a2f860

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "16db3b9c9f5e0f8ad0e519ffba261f6a90f9997dbd0be39a85a7d4f1de99674f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LO",
    "submitted_at": "2016-12-04T09:38:56Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "82967028d2b347173385ce91b03b31c2398470be196aeffca75258832ee35952"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1612.01091",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}