Pith Number

pith:DOU6UZ6G

pith:2012:DOU6UZ6GPUGHLF26EAIQFNLLZN

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Of Bombs and Boats and Mice and Men: A Random tour through some scaling laws

Niall MacKay

arxiv:1210.5067 v1 · 2012-10-18 · math.HO · physics.pop-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{DOU6UZ6GPUGHLF26EAIQFNLLZN}

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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	2026-05-18T03:42:54.382115Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

1ba9ea67c67d0c75975e201102b56bcb5426158e225caa5e7b3ad0e6c1d9f9d8

Aliases

arxiv: 1210.5067 · arxiv_version: 1210.5067v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1210.5067 · pith_short_12: DOU6UZ6GPUGH · pith_short_16: DOU6UZ6GPUGHLF26 · pith_short_8: DOU6UZ6G

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/DOU6UZ6GPUGHLF26EAIQFNLLZN \
  | 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: 1ba9ea67c67d0c75975e201102b56bcb5426158e225caa5e7b3ad0e6c1d9f9d8

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1955c8768521602d4996a569dfe477c7d165b5ba915bddf65baf0374afd0816b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.pop-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.HO",
    "submitted_at": "2012-10-18T09:41:49Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0755f38a382505477b520b57a052ab5035b675bc60d94d1b452bc7c1dbc0127a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1210.5067",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}