Pith Number

pith:FPINK62Z

pith:2016:FPINK62ZIBDKLLWRQV3U4TSSYF

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Inverse Gamma Distribution and Benford's Law

Adam Lott, Chi Huynh, Eyvindur A. Palsson, Gert Vriend, Rebecca F. Durst, Steven J. Miller, Wouter Touw

arxiv:1609.04106 v3 · 2016-09-14 · math.PR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{FPINK62ZIBDKLLWRQV3U4TSSYF}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:26:37.621804Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2bd0d57b594046a5aed185774e4e52c178166aea718df583a74b0427d14abead

Aliases

arxiv: 1609.04106 · arxiv_version: 1609.04106v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1609.04106 · pith_short_12: FPINK62ZIBDK · pith_short_16: FPINK62ZIBDKLLWR · pith_short_8: FPINK62Z

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/FPINK62ZIBDKLLWRQV3U4TSSYF \
  | 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: 2bd0d57b594046a5aed185774e4e52c178166aea718df583a74b0427d14abead

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "cdf4b846df597be1899bdfec751f57d6f20223aeda4fed954bf75016438c6257",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.PR",
    "submitted_at": "2016-09-14T01:39:30Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ddc78f468cea027a1a96f5ce5dce017758d06dd14e816afbdec347e320746b89"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1609.04106",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}