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pith:IQXXOSME

pith:2019:IQXXOSMEF2M6MAF3VTFUHNW26R

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How the Avengers assemble: Ecological modelling of effective cast sizes for movies

Lewis Mitchell, Matthew Roughan, Tobin South

arxiv:1906.08403 v1 · 2019-06-20 · cs.SI · physics.soc-ph

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\pithnumber{IQXXOSMEF2M6MAF3VTFUHNW26R}

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First computed	2026-05-17T23:42:52.570388Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

442f7749842e99e600bbaccb43b6daf462affe285aa7a4ba2d175a9bbafd38f5

Aliases

arxiv: 1906.08403 · arxiv_version: 1906.08403v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1906.08403 · pith_short_12: IQXXOSMEF2M6 · pith_short_16: IQXXOSMEF2M6MAF3 · pith_short_8: IQXXOSME

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/IQXXOSMEF2M6MAF3VTFUHNW26R \
  | 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: 442f7749842e99e600bbaccb43b6daf462affe285aa7a4ba2d175a9bbafd38f5

Canonical record JSON

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    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b180ca0bbc26803c81b01b0238989f0b34e9533b40ed621c792b37df4caab56f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.soc-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SI",
    "submitted_at": "2019-06-20T01:03:53Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "cb66138d7590fa4db2decd302f1661c330752a408959ea96d8141e6d826381b7"
  },
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  "source": {
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    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}