Pith Number

pith:C7GFMY2A

pith:2014:C7GFMY2A5B7YNIDELOZHJAIDGY

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Zipf's Law and the Frequency of Characters or Words of Oracles

Xiuli Wang

arxiv:1412.2821 v1 · 2014-12-09 · cs.CL · math.ST · stat.TH

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\pithnumber{C7GFMY2A5B7YNIDELOZHJAIDGY}

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First computed	2026-05-18T02:31:45.821820Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

17cc566340e87f86a0645bb27481033625001b0ae9d8d6008ca32154a777d7a6

Aliases

arxiv: 1412.2821 · arxiv_version: 1412.2821v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1412.2821 · pith_short_12: C7GFMY2A5B7Y · pith_short_16: C7GFMY2A5B7YNIDE · pith_short_8: C7GFMY2A

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/C7GFMY2A5B7YNIDELOZHJAIDGY \
  | 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: 17cc566340e87f86a0645bb27481033625001b0ae9d8d6008ca32154a777d7a6

Canonical record JSON

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  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1a01ea4603a2f7912e685ff21ae6be2eee188e9fa1dfad9153f6d3c4cdac6ef1",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.ST",
      "stat.TH"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2014-12-09T00:39:16Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "321eb202ea6174928d947042049a423f967af821678aab65b88f024cd4ff3331"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1412.2821",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}