Pith Number

pith:G44UOKZ7

pith:2015:G44UOKZ7BKBI3UFFJPV77OFK42

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Equipartitions and a Distribution for Numbers: A Statistical Model for Benford's Law

Frederick W. Strauch, Joseph R. Iafrate, Steven J. Miller

arxiv:1503.08259 v1 · 2015-03-28 · physics.data-an

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{G44UOKZ7BKBI3UFFJPV77OFK42}

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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	2026-05-18T02:20:02.355653Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3739472b3f0a828dd0a54bebffb8aae6adf98d57f3108b4ca332fd60b63cf47b

Aliases

arxiv: 1503.08259 · arxiv_version: 1503.08259v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1503.08259 · pith_short_12: G44UOKZ7BKBI · pith_short_16: G44UOKZ7BKBI3UFF · pith_short_8: G44UOKZ7

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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/G44UOKZ7BKBI3UFFJPV77OFK42 \
  | 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: 3739472b3f0a828dd0a54bebffb8aae6adf98d57f3108b4ca332fd60b63cf47b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5d3a804c0e23b95fbddb227f74051e9dd6093e7ea248e4ecdca9659e046f7ea7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.data-an",
    "submitted_at": "2015-03-28T02:22:50Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "78f3e446119412cb83cdccdcec09eca245bec470ff774d2f789d07cf971afb36"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1503.08259",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}