Pith Number

pith:OJIBWRFP

pith:2025:OJIBWRFPHAIXMZIJV7GRV3Q4VQ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

How much is too much? Measuring divergence from Benford's Law with the Equivalent Contamination Proportion (ECP)

Manuel Cano-Rodriguez

arxiv:2506.09915 v2 · 2025-06-11 · econ.EM

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{OJIBWRFPHAIXMZIJV7GRV3Q4VQ}

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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	2026-07-05T11:21:49.513538Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

72501b44af3811766509afcd1aee1cac3db75a30482a975339175961fa8f0b1c

Aliases

arxiv: 2506.09915 · arxiv_version: 2506.09915v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2506.09915 · pith_short_12: OJIBWRFPHAIX · pith_short_16: OJIBWRFPHAIXMZIJ · pith_short_8: OJIBWRFP

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/OJIBWRFPHAIXMZIJV7GRV3Q4VQ \
  | 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: 72501b44af3811766509afcd1aee1cac3db75a30482a975339175961fa8f0b1c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9a24baa90f06a143b286fa65f23406010becee96082a079f90ddd06764cc5064",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "econ.EM",
    "submitted_at": "2025-06-11T16:32:03Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3f7a0f343306fafc1a9623b73d7ab9b35c75f18e74f19ac95f32ec32d25c8419"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2506.09915",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}