Pith Number

pith:PLH3544D

pith:2001:PLH3544DQJZ7P5JWG34U7RLMPQ

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Galileo's Discovery of Scaling Laws

Mark A. Peterson

arxiv:physics/0110031 v3 · 2001-10-09 · physics.hist-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{PLH3544DQJZ7P5JWG34U7RLMPQ}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:38:09.469654Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7acfbef3838273f7f53636f94fc56c7c3ee351894424a47ff8b3a576c6e370c9

Aliases

arxiv: physics/0110031 · arxiv_version: physics/0110031v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.physics/0110031 · pith_short_12: PLH3544DQJZ7 · pith_short_16: PLH3544DQJZ7P5JW · pith_short_8: PLH3544D

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/PLH3544DQJZ7P5JWG34U7RLMPQ \
  | 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: 7acfbef3838273f7f53636f94fc56c7c3ee351894424a47ff8b3a576c6e370c9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1588120bedae04a7983bff844e690e82889742636b27f269366170bd882840ba",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "physics.hist-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2001-10-09T15:45:29Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0b7d2886293eb4278ad17424261117581eeeeafe8d30fb449417e4f62481f97e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "physics/0110031",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}