Pith Number

pith:E5SYD6TN

pith:2019:E5SYD6TN72B5BYHXT2UQYT72XW

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Coconuts and Islanders: A Statistics-First Guide to the Boltzmann Distribution

Brian Zhang

arxiv:1904.04669 v1 · 2019-04-07 · cond-mat.stat-mech · physics.ed-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{E5SYD6TN72B5BYHXT2UQYT72XW}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-17T23:47:15.533492Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

276581fa6dfe83d0e0f79ea90c4ffabd869033e97f761c6ac250c761568fe3b6

Aliases

arxiv: 1904.04669 · arxiv_version: 1904.04669v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1904.04669 · pith_short_12: E5SYD6TN72B5 · pith_short_16: E5SYD6TN72B5BYHX · pith_short_8: E5SYD6TN

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/E5SYD6TN72B5BYHXT2UQYT72XW \
  | 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: 276581fa6dfe83d0e0f79ea90c4ffabd869033e97f761c6ac250c761568fe3b6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ef27aa6e460909d7ecfc8f32f5a1474c470acff62c02a88a181273306519be55",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.ed-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cond-mat.stat-mech",
    "submitted_at": "2019-04-07T22:39:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3592f3934a7fc26e4fe3505614a974943b2460e898058ae0e245588e48a13cc2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1904.04669",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}