Pith Number

pith:VO63TASU

pith:2016:VO63TASUBMODES7SH6NAW7LVHV

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On the coupon-collector's problem with several parallel collections

Alessia Tagliavini, Marco Ferrante

arxiv:1609.04174 v1 · 2016-09-14 · math.PR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VO63TASUBMODES7SH6NAW7LVHV}

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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	2026-05-18T01:04:38.737255Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

abbdb982540b1c324bf23f9a0b7d753d6e2a466d30b4b9df45b6b271dc1541cb

Aliases

arxiv: 1609.04174 · arxiv_version: 1609.04174v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1609.04174 · pith_short_12: VO63TASUBMOD · pith_short_16: VO63TASUBMODES7S · pith_short_8: VO63TASU

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VO63TASUBMODES7SH6NAW7LVHV \
  | 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: abbdb982540b1c324bf23f9a0b7d753d6e2a466d30b4b9df45b6b271dc1541cb

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "02c55606c8e227885c6779ecec920c9e90f7edf9a696e0fb700be14ade947160",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.PR",
    "submitted_at": "2016-09-14T08:46:02Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2c66eb4288a5fe3fc5aafb859d1d0959dc84c13628fae308b16666bb2b02826f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1609.04174",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}