Pith Number

pith:I74ORSEG

pith:2016:I74ORSEGCTPVAPARAOSVL7KLY5

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Beyond Zipf's Law: The Lavalette Rank Function and its Properties

Germinal Cocho, Oscar Fontanelli, Pedro Miramontes, Wentian Li, Yaning Yang

arxiv:1606.01959 v1 · 2016-06-06 · physics.data-an · physics.soc-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{I74ORSEGCTPVAPARAOSVL7KLY5}

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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	2026-05-18T00:45:16.016957Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

47f8e8c88614df503c1103a555fd4bc77ea73247ad2a959e8aa8663a2c348057

Aliases

arxiv: 1606.01959 · arxiv_version: 1606.01959v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1606.01959 · pith_short_12: I74ORSEGCTPV · pith_short_16: I74ORSEGCTPVAPAR · pith_short_8: I74ORSEG

Agent API

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/I74ORSEGCTPVAPARAOSVL7KLY5 \
  | 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: 47f8e8c88614df503c1103a555fd4bc77ea73247ad2a959e8aa8663a2c348057

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5dd434713b2714b290812824457be24f901c9ed9b334802359d328e4b6ee97cf",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.soc-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.data-an",
    "submitted_at": "2016-06-06T22:10:57Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1521589e979e52b7f517aa3d1fe1724b32e07847b5cf05580a78060b7df87ee3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1606.01959",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}