Pith Number

pith:LCQQ3JCK

pith:2012:LCQQ3JCKQLF2O2RDQXGTNOAOQR

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The leading digit distribution of the worldwide Illicit Financial Flows

Tariq Ahmad Mir

arxiv:1201.3432 v3 · 2012-01-17 · physics.soc-ph · physics.data-an · q-fin.GN

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{LCQQ3JCKQLF2O2RDQXGTNOAOQR}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T01:23:10.744971Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

58a10da44a82cba76a2385cd36b80e847680afd69f062187786d1f47c36918fa

Aliases

arxiv: 1201.3432 · arxiv_version: 1201.3432v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1201.3432 · pith_short_12: LCQQ3JCKQLF2 · pith_short_16: LCQQ3JCKQLF2O2RD · pith_short_8: LCQQ3JCK

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/LCQQ3JCKQLF2O2RDQXGTNOAOQR \
  | 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: 58a10da44a82cba76a2385cd36b80e847680afd69f062187786d1f47c36918fa

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "476842af4ed52c6da3987995f5b605eeb453cf79f94858ec6db92616bc6b12b1",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.data-an",
      "q-fin.GN"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.soc-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2012-01-17T05:46:41Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3c995bdad8db64a224306577ad0cf1767fd25984e7d161d20102014f3979ac52"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1201.3432",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}