Pith Number

pith:53LTHGWG

pith:2015:53LTHGWGCAERV4OIXSG3OIRWHA

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Probabilistic, statistical and algorithmic aspects of the similarity of texts and application to Gospels comparison

Gane Samb Lo, Soumaila Dembele

arxiv:1508.03772 v1 · 2015-08-15 · stat.ME · math.PR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{53LTHGWGCAERV4OIXSG3OIRWHA}

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:35:15.264681Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

eed7339ac610091af1c8bc8db7223638126fef9cb4710e1259504e0a0d0ad234

Aliases

arxiv: 1508.03772 · arxiv_version: 1508.03772v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1508.03772 · pith_short_12: 53LTHGWGCAER · pith_short_16: 53LTHGWGCAERV4OI · pith_short_8: 53LTHGWG

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/53LTHGWGCAERV4OIXSG3OIRWHA \
  | 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: eed7339ac610091af1c8bc8db7223638126fef9cb4710e1259504e0a0d0ad234

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "214d7d72a9307ac3d3d8d4b73129cbb25deec5be5f9cbadff5537d3345e91eed",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.PR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ME",
    "submitted_at": "2015-08-15T22:12:22Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "45794db1a19e3dbee5248dc19ad17cc31137d8639719c510a4af99871cd172a8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1508.03772",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}