Pith Number

pith:IZSLGFVX

pith:2015:IZSLGFVXCLI45AHQNBYHKQP6DR

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Mixture model of pottery distributions from Lake Chad Basin archaeological sites reveals ancient segregation patterns

John D. O'Brien, Kathryn Lin, Scott MacEachern

arxiv:1511.05185 v1 · 2015-11-16 · stat.AP

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{IZSLGFVXCLI45AHQNBYHKQP6DR}

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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	2026-05-18T01:26:49.841772Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4664b316b712d1ce80f068707541fe1c712eb58ccc01453f0537bf8948c793cf

Aliases

arxiv: 1511.05185 · arxiv_version: 1511.05185v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1511.05185 · pith_short_12: IZSLGFVXCLI4 · pith_short_16: IZSLGFVXCLI45AHQ · pith_short_8: IZSLGFVX

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/IZSLGFVXCLI45AHQNBYHKQP6DR \
  | 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: 4664b316b712d1ce80f068707541fe1c712eb58ccc01453f0537bf8948c793cf

Canonical record JSON

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  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ad528056e6992c145529260820334b8c1410ad484711b43e9e08df31e403cf05",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.AP",
    "submitted_at": "2015-11-16T21:28:35Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3d5c077b5fa6570d8cc50fd0c1c7ec004423b58010bf6d2693af280b69a5d790"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1511.05185",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}