Pith Number

pith:4MB4FTHZ

pith:2016:4MB4FTHZSN5GLVZQU5Z6N25S5L

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Using Text Similarity to Detect Social Interactions not Captured by Formal Reply Mechanisms

Dan Cosley, Roberto M. Cesar-Jr, Samuel Barbosa

arxiv:1604.04811 v1 · 2016-04-17 · cs.SI · physics.soc-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4MB4FTHZSN5GLVZQU5Z6N25S5L}

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:16:58.433901Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e303c2ccf9937a65d730a773e6ebb2eaf9d52ed7c151a3b9822bf4ffec2fb0ab

Aliases

arxiv: 1604.04811 · arxiv_version: 1604.04811v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1604.04811 · pith_short_12: 4MB4FTHZSN5G · pith_short_16: 4MB4FTHZSN5GLVZQ · pith_short_8: 4MB4FTHZ

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/4MB4FTHZSN5GLVZQU5Z6N25S5L \
  | 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: e303c2ccf9937a65d730a773e6ebb2eaf9d52ed7c151a3b9822bf4ffec2fb0ab

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1358a28ae54db51793388154b942f6f3c55dd4fbb003a7b24350e6a71c84fba7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.soc-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SI",
    "submitted_at": "2016-04-17T00:15:17Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7c350662c0c432f2096d4143ace7f7ee36c88eb879e4145e3cdba3f37c7f4373"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1604.04811",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}