Pith Number

pith:RGGDWPN7

pith:2025:RGGDWPN7XKB6A35SIZQWZF26TT

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Ball path curvature and in-game free throw shooting proficiency in the National Basketball Association

Dave Love, Ruoqian Zhu, Scott Powers

arxiv:2506.13779 v1 · 2025-06-09 · physics.soc-ph · stat.AP

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First computed	2026-07-05T11:22:43.230994Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

898c3b3dbfba83e06fb246616c975e9ce71fb3f3bf7c8ac5f3bdcb1901e1677a

Aliases

arxiv: 2506.13779 · arxiv_version: 2506.13779v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2506.13779 · pith_short_12: RGGDWPN7XKB6 · pith_short_16: RGGDWPN7XKB6A35S · pith_short_8: RGGDWPN7

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/RGGDWPN7XKB6A35SIZQWZF26TT \
  | 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: 898c3b3dbfba83e06fb246616c975e9ce71fb3f3bf7c8ac5f3bdcb1901e1677a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "be4d7ea525ca75ff0ef4eba26013b30c251fc47a3460bea91d3a96136b530a37",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.AP"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.soc-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2025-06-09T21:15:13Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e6bacf7c821fb97932bb06150fe905a5a5c8efea9efd28606d365b1b62b70621"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2506.13779",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}