Pith Number

pith:JN7UG5CS

pith:2012:JN7UG5CSM7EPJOXEOVFA2VHJ4P

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Benford's law: A theoretical explanation for base 2

H. M. Bharath

arxiv:1211.7008 v1 · 2012-11-24 · stat.OT

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{JN7UG5CSM7EPJOXEOVFA2VHJ4P}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-05-18T03:39:42.493828Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4b7f43745267c8f4bae4754a0d54e9e3f1a16151d34d3ee22810a030584a2b53

Aliases

arxiv: 1211.7008 · arxiv_version: 1211.7008v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1211.7008 · pith_short_12: JN7UG5CSM7EP · pith_short_16: JN7UG5CSM7EPJOXE · pith_short_8: JN7UG5CS

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/JN7UG5CSM7EPJOXEOVFA2VHJ4P \
  | 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: 4b7f43745267c8f4bae4754a0d54e9e3f1a16151d34d3ee22810a030584a2b53

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "bd43822ed993814a07dae8975bb71590a22e12377f87b42fa82d799e3a760f31",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.OT",
    "submitted_at": "2012-11-24T14:15:56Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c7679c883cc2f30b3b9c7278eb86ddfa20aef75998fe949974224fc83307febd"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1211.7008",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}