Pith Number

pith:BAENNDCH

pith:2018:BAENNDCH6UQJ4SM7GGMS372XYN

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Zipf's law in 50 languages: its structural pattern, linguistic interpretation, and cognitive motivation

Chunshan Xu, Haitao Liu, Shuiyuan Yu

arxiv:1807.01855 v1 · 2018-07-05 · cs.CL

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BAENNDCH6UQJ4SM7GGMS372XYN}

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Record completeness

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✓ 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	2026-05-18T00:11:28.473279Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0808d68c47f5209e499f31992dff57c37646f664ef88045b8e7a2172dad02f88

Aliases

arxiv: 1807.01855 · arxiv_version: 1807.01855v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1807.01855 · pith_short_12: BAENNDCH6UQJ · pith_short_16: BAENNDCH6UQJ4SM7 · pith_short_8: BAENNDCH

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/BAENNDCH6UQJ4SM7GGMS372XYN \
  | 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: 0808d68c47f5209e499f31992dff57c37646f664ef88045b8e7a2172dad02f88

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4105d409c2c915b6270b520c6456aed85a15d4ba7b27b9247b10094cb2a340c9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2018-07-05T06:03:39Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4d3aa2cd227478d51bc473fcb37be97a679d86a2573c7ad1a000fbb7c7480028"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1807.01855",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}