Pith Number

pith:N6CHOKZY

pith:2015:N6CHOKZYBH6RGSMP3JMUCQ524A

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Benford's Law Applies To Online Social Networks

Jennifer Golbeck

arxiv:1504.04387 v1 · 2015-04-16 · cs.SI · physics.soc-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{N6CHOKZYBH6RGSMP3JMUCQ524A}

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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	2026-05-18T01:20:36.603773Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6f84772b3809fd13498fda594143bae0283dbf8434eb16dfc7bed80452c41958

Aliases

arxiv: 1504.04387 · arxiv_version: 1504.04387v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1504.04387 · pith_short_12: N6CHOKZYBH6R · pith_short_16: N6CHOKZYBH6RGSMP · pith_short_8: N6CHOKZY

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/N6CHOKZYBH6RGSMP3JMUCQ524A \
  | 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: 6f84772b3809fd13498fda594143bae0283dbf8434eb16dfc7bed80452c41958

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "cc0c6b981d64ebe7310d74acb92c429c3da6b57da9a6f3c061d6986333496060",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.soc-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SI",
    "submitted_at": "2015-04-16T20:43:35Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b5e447fc3660c5b4b5771293d7f13386cbbb7aace3af882920587d7c8fcb6f50"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1504.04387",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}