Pith Number

pith:BF5AVKOY

pith:2015:BF5AVKOY2RLTDJYKIUXK2DKWQK

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Musings on the theory that variation in cancer risk among tissues can be explained by the number of divisions of normal stem cells

Bert Vogelstein, Cristian Tomasetti

arxiv:1501.05035 v4 · 2015-01-21 · stat.AP · q-bio.GN · q-bio.TO

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\pithnumber{BF5AVKOY2RLTDJYKIUXK2DKWQK}

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:20:29.729026Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

097a0aa9d8d45731a70a452ead0d5682b3b55b611a74554e25e7c19921102278

Aliases

arxiv: 1501.05035 · arxiv_version: 1501.05035v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1501.05035 · pith_short_12: BF5AVKOY2RLT · pith_short_16: BF5AVKOY2RLTDJYK · pith_short_8: BF5AVKOY

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/BF5AVKOY2RLTDJYKIUXK2DKWQK \
  | 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: 097a0aa9d8d45731a70a452ead0d5682b3b55b611a74554e25e7c19921102278

Canonical record JSON

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  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "29ec6d0c9eb3efba727b464e143ef7ea7eb858fde5c540699b1831c150369dba",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "q-bio.GN",
      "q-bio.TO"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.AP",
    "submitted_at": "2015-01-21T02:15:43Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d61e72d2e8481b539dea7ccd10e3f509d2f86f8ffebcd442ce69c5cb14a8a14e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1501.05035",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}