Pith Number

pith:4FS2G674

pith:2011:4FS2G674ZCNNVU3BZP4JZEJ6I2

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Law of the leading digits and the ideological struggle for numbers

Tariq Ahmad Mir

arxiv:1104.3948 v4 · 2011-04-20 · physics.data-an · physics.soc-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4FS2G674ZCNNVU3BZP4JZEJ6I2}

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4 Citations 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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T04:09:36.352113Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e165a37bfcc89adad361cbf89c913e46bc83f8ff7442df7900b03731d343006f

Aliases

arxiv: 1104.3948 · arxiv_version: 1104.3948v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1104.3948 · pith_short_12: 4FS2G674ZCNN · pith_short_16: 4FS2G674ZCNNVU3B · pith_short_8: 4FS2G674

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/4FS2G674ZCNNVU3BZP4JZEJ6I2 \
  | 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: e165a37bfcc89adad361cbf89c913e46bc83f8ff7442df7900b03731d343006f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2a74121b236b219ebabeb824a0513961b41b1d45898bd09ffe560d987b83e5c1",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.soc-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.data-an",
    "submitted_at": "2011-04-20T06:10:13Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8afaa1ef3cc5b62efc03ae04b24d26d159a4f8156a4c18a6e411cb98c69ed870"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1104.3948",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}