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pith:BDRSM77U

pith:2017:BDRSM77UDPGFBKK3H6PQRD6FDN

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Character Distributions of Classical Chinese Literary Texts: Zipf's Law, Genres, and Epochs

Chao-Lin Liu, Hongsu Wang, Huei-ling Lai, Shuhua Zhang, Yuanli Geng

arxiv:1709.05587 v1 · 2017-09-17 · cs.CL · cs.DL

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:35:00.231709Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

08e3267ff41bcc50a95b3f9f088fc51b408136180f1d0064b6a227b567ce3619

Aliases

arxiv: 1709.05587 · arxiv_version: 1709.05587v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1709.05587 · pith_short_12: BDRSM77UDPGF · pith_short_16: BDRSM77UDPGFBKK3 · pith_short_8: BDRSM77U

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/BDRSM77UDPGFBKK3H6PQRD6FDN \
  | 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: 08e3267ff41bcc50a95b3f9f088fc51b408136180f1d0064b6a227b567ce3619

Canonical record JSON

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    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2017-09-17T01:15:03Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "33067c8f669087c8614148ccccacfee6e1f004bbe60025ee98bb1b8c0f2059fe"
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