Pith Number

pith:5V4B4UJA

pith:2015:5V4B4UJAXZO4OO2FWS56MJ5NVM

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On the shadow moments of apparently infinite-mean phenomena

Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Pasquale Cirillo

arxiv:1510.06731 v2 · 2015-10-22 · stat.AP · stat.ME

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5V4B4UJAXZO4OO2FWS56MJ5NVM}

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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	2026-05-18T00:09:10.487905Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ed781e5120be5dc73b45b4bbe627adab11b58d04a31f167f2bc090decd5f877d

Aliases

arxiv: 1510.06731 · arxiv_version: 1510.06731v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1510.06731 · pith_short_12: 5V4B4UJAXZO4 · pith_short_16: 5V4B4UJAXZO4OO2F · pith_short_8: 5V4B4UJA

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/5V4B4UJAXZO4OO2FWS56MJ5NVM \
  | 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: ed781e5120be5dc73b45b4bbe627adab11b58d04a31f167f2bc090decd5f877d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9d82e7edbdfd6c4462aedea78a6fa8245079cbe0c9f8824c2ffb77f1b982013a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.ME"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.AP",
    "submitted_at": "2015-10-22T19:48:31Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7fc910990aa38d1139929b2c43eaf6050241b1a5dc93af9ec53b63608cc6a70f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1510.06731",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}