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Pith Number

pith:ZJOI3WTK

pith:2013:ZJOI3WTKTMJYUC4QEW6Q5W25VW
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Where Do Thin Tails Come From?

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

arxiv:1307.6695 v2 · 2013-07-25 · q-fin.RM · physics.soc-ph · stat.ME

Add to your LaTeX paper
\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZJOI3WTKTMJYUC4QEW6Q5W25VW}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp
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.
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First computed 2026-05-18T03:17:24.037480Z
Builder pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature Pith Ed25519 (pith-v1-2026-05) · public key
Schema pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ca5c8dda6a9b138a0b9025bd0edb5dad9188cb199b51af6fb844b9cbf244d8f9

Aliases

arxiv: 1307.6695 · arxiv_version: 1307.6695v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1307.6695 · pith_short_12: ZJOI3WTKTMJY · pith_short_16: ZJOI3WTKTMJYUC4Q · pith_short_8: ZJOI3WTK
Agent API
Verify this Pith Number yourself
curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/ZJOI3WTKTMJYUC4QEW6Q5W25VW \
  | 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: ca5c8dda6a9b138a0b9025bd0edb5dad9188cb199b51af6fb844b9cbf244d8f9
Canonical record JSON
{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f379d1e04e1f46f05f401044fb27fd3df1fcdd652dbe006b6734f0b7e30e13cb",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.soc-ph",
      "stat.ME"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-fin.RM",
    "submitted_at": "2013-07-25T10:56:16Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f396d1302c7b03ba8488ccf3ff79a9f5162d89df35be6b500e428aeaef666be2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1307.6695",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}