Pith Number

pith:KHFQGNBD

pith:2005:KHFQGNBDKO4PHQFQECSOQOO5P2

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A Derivation of the Pythagorean Won-Loss Formula in Baseball

Steven J. Miller

arxiv:math/0509698 v4 · 2005-09-29 · math.ST · math.HO · stat.TH

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KHFQGNBDKO4PHQFQECSOQOO5P2}

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First computed	2026-05-18T04:35:55.507396Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

51cb03342353b8f3c0b020a4e839dd7eafc45cc50d25204978d4d373cf63effb

Aliases

arxiv: math/0509698 · arxiv_version: math/0509698v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.math/0509698 · pith_short_12: KHFQGNBDKO4P · pith_short_16: KHFQGNBDKO4PHQFQ · pith_short_8: KHFQGNBD

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/KHFQGNBDKO4PHQFQECSOQOO5P2 \
  | 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: 51cb03342353b8f3c0b020a4e839dd7eafc45cc50d25204978d4d373cf63effb

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1d6a510617f6c450a58f200791d0d5f12b2049f41e5dbcd86af08f6079ac35c8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.HO",
      "stat.TH"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "math.ST",
    "submitted_at": "2005-09-29T15:02:13Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "97f4aab844e83658fcc9b972024a4d2b0895f9007690899fe14368b59deec01b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "math/0509698",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}