Pith Number

pith:VR5GV35C

pith:2011:VR5GV35CNG7ZWYUOLBTGJHSTIC

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A Practical Implementation of the Bernoulli Factory

A.C. Thomas, Jose H. Blanchet

arxiv:1106.2508 v3 · 2011-06-13 · stat.AP

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VR5GV35CNG7ZWYUOLBTGJHSTIC}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-18T03:57:40.632329Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ac7a6aefa269bf9b628e5866649e5340827b7940e0fda3e1cd8085ee218c1a8e

Aliases

arxiv: 1106.2508 · arxiv_version: 1106.2508v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1106.2508 · pith_short_12: VR5GV35CNG7Z · pith_short_16: VR5GV35CNG7ZWYUO · pith_short_8: VR5GV35C

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/VR5GV35CNG7ZWYUOLBTGJHSTIC \
  | 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: ac7a6aefa269bf9b628e5866649e5340827b7940e0fda3e1cd8085ee218c1a8e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "05929f5763fcfcf2e21f33e11e3e3215e8d9891d39dad5c16bd688f42090dee1",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.AP",
    "submitted_at": "2011-06-13T18:21:33Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "42373658668b18c14e0ccfd57ab517894b9482f3eec237ca2a02a111bf941f93"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1106.2508",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}