Pith Number

pith:F6TVVQ3D

pith:2014:F6TVVQ3D3U27OUMOKGFKMCAIPZ

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A simple view of the heavy-tailed sales distributions and application to the box-office grosses of U.S. movies

Ken Yamamoto

arxiv:1410.2699 v2 · 2014-10-10 · physics.soc-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{F6TVVQ3D3U27OUMOKGFKMCAIPZ}

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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	2026-05-18T02:29:45.333367Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2fa75ac363dd35f7518e518aa608087e4e753e3818d4c2aff2d5cb06c4224c6e

Aliases

arxiv: 1410.2699 · arxiv_version: 1410.2699v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1410.2699 · pith_short_12: F6TVVQ3D3U27 · pith_short_16: F6TVVQ3D3U27OUMO · pith_short_8: F6TVVQ3D

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/F6TVVQ3D3U27OUMOKGFKMCAIPZ \
  | 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: 2fa75ac363dd35f7518e518aa608087e4e753e3818d4c2aff2d5cb06c4224c6e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "506ff33289f51f02f874fe6f4af1c12fbdddd7f3e83bbd43310a819bfbcbc39b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.soc-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2014-10-10T07:44:06Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "39122dac589465dfc6dc135b17f46dbc2a0c8a8ad52d7fcd950fe61745bd095b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1410.2699",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}