Pith Number

pith:ZYXXBRR7

pith:2014:ZYXXBRR7D4CTME33XCZ47NGBL5

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Compensating for the loss of a chance

Joseph B. Kadane, Rafael B. Stern

arxiv:1412.1501 v1 · 2014-12-03 · stat.AP

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZYXXBRR7D4CTME33XCZ47NGBL5}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-05-18T02:32:07.065018Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ce2f70c63f1f0536137bb8b3cfb4c15f6571ea71e023a2829bdbf16d18290fb5

Aliases

arxiv: 1412.1501 · arxiv_version: 1412.1501v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1412.1501 · pith_short_12: ZYXXBRR7D4CT · pith_short_16: ZYXXBRR7D4CTME33 · pith_short_8: ZYXXBRR7

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/ZYXXBRR7D4CTME33XCZ47NGBL5 \
  | 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: ce2f70c63f1f0536137bb8b3cfb4c15f6571ea71e023a2829bdbf16d18290fb5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f6111945bfaa816b308565b1abe1848f6e3e9b70c6eb06abd410f97fb5e0b70b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.AP",
    "submitted_at": "2014-12-03T21:42:33Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "31fecc4c775dcd31af873f62a44d903b047277f537b7501639fdeefe3cea2aad"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1412.1501",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}