Pith Number

pith:N2HQ4WVE

pith:2015:N2HQ4WVEN7CPTNVBIFIC2UILCI

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Exploring chance in NCAA basketball

Albrecht Zimmermann

arxiv:1508.04688 v1 · 2015-08-19 · stat.AP

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{N2HQ4WVEN7CPTNVBIFIC2UILCI}

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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	2026-05-18T01:35:00.415348Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6e8f0e5aa46fc4f9b6a141502d510b120f2645edf2d987503b2fab8d64005339

Aliases

arxiv: 1508.04688 · arxiv_version: 1508.04688v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1508.04688 · pith_short_12: N2HQ4WVEN7CP · pith_short_16: N2HQ4WVEN7CPTNVB · pith_short_8: N2HQ4WVE

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/N2HQ4WVEN7CPTNVBIFIC2UILCI \
  | 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: 6e8f0e5aa46fc4f9b6a141502d510b120f2645edf2d987503b2fab8d64005339

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "31faa1949e5a5a16904f0a64825a940883b69a83e7f05d63037847b4c9530bfd",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.AP",
    "submitted_at": "2015-08-19T16:05:32Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8611dc06c3557a47a83e367ef7c88f83a37041df0b306ea172a4704d0e88b02a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1508.04688",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}