Pith Number

pith:6CJKXLGC

pith:2017:6CJKXLGCHMBH2EBPPKKDEXXX7C

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A Simple Derivation of the Heap's Law from the Generalized Zipf's Law

Leonid Boytsov

arxiv:1711.03066 v1 · 2017-11-08 · cs.IR

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\pithnumber{6CJKXLGCHMBH2EBPPKKDEXXX7C}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:31:00.870189Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f092abacc23b027d102f7a94325ef7f899f48a5bf5c893f148908952583980ac

Aliases

arxiv: 1711.03066 · arxiv_version: 1711.03066v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1711.03066 · pith_short_12: 6CJKXLGCHMBH · pith_short_16: 6CJKXLGCHMBH2EBP · pith_short_8: 6CJKXLGC

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/6CJKXLGCHMBH2EBPPKKDEXXX7C \
  | 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: f092abacc23b027d102f7a94325ef7f899f48a5bf5c893f148908952583980ac

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e09f81e3a884a3f4041873bd0f1a94ccc978d680c39f9a968e617df0641439e7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IR",
    "submitted_at": "2017-11-08T17:45:46Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "eef52ea5d6d697324703464c0b3840ea9e2db0c3c6f59e6b199d0f1b532c8e67"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1711.03066",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}