Pith Number

pith:LL6F5NCZ

pith:2018:LL6F5NCZVQL6RW3XEELF3IZSBF

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Call center service times are lognormal. A Fokker--Planck description

Giuseppe Toscani, Stefano Gualandi

arxiv:1802.09398 v1 · 2018-02-23 · physics.soc-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{LL6F5NCZVQL6RW3XEELF3IZSBF}

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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	2026-05-18T00:22:33.794249Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5afc5eb459ac17e8db7721165da332095f7733099ee68451014c6a7a4823508e

Aliases

arxiv: 1802.09398 · arxiv_version: 1802.09398v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1802.09398 · pith_short_12: LL6F5NCZVQL6 · pith_short_16: LL6F5NCZVQL6RW3X · pith_short_8: LL6F5NCZ

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/LL6F5NCZVQL6RW3XEELF3IZSBF \
  | 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: 5afc5eb459ac17e8db7721165da332095f7733099ee68451014c6a7a4823508e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8c5345fbbd6acf1425842aa0f8bd3fc256bde7041f452d8db739e56c97c80946",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.soc-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2018-02-23T17:00:08Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "73d826a2d7822f9bd611176c2750c86ccdc3397fd7f16412cf8f0174d6806724"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1802.09398",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}