Pith Number

pith:DH2I7VPO

pith:2012:DH2I7VPOLRHQQQOSFMCMSFBVSF

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Benford's law and Theil transform of financial data

Marcel Ausloos, Paulette Clippe

arxiv:1208.5896 v1 · 2012-08-29 · q-fin.ST · physics.data-an · physics.soc-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{DH2I7VPOLRHQQQOSFMCMSFBVSF}

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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	2026-05-18T03:44:59.940173Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

19f48fd5ee5c4f0841d22b04c914359168722f236245e3244b9323951fe615b6

Aliases

arxiv: 1208.5896 · arxiv_version: 1208.5896v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1208.5896 · pith_short_12: DH2I7VPOLRHQ · pith_short_16: DH2I7VPOLRHQQQOS · pith_short_8: DH2I7VPO

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/DH2I7VPOLRHQQQOSFMCMSFBVSF \
  | 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: 19f48fd5ee5c4f0841d22b04c914359168722f236245e3244b9323951fe615b6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ec902990d05a22b5c34385201f3a97d6a8fbdc6c659f80bbd0a8c2682a32cfb5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.data-an",
      "physics.soc-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-fin.ST",
    "submitted_at": "2012-08-29T12:33:44Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "244897e1b539f518661e99d06f3bf1af9083481caa6a0cc829a4ece636f7845f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1208.5896",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}