Pith Number

pith:TCJBXGZX

pith:2014:TCJBXGZXCDWOYE3W46IWKJRBDQ

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The Informative Herd: why humans and other animals imitate more when conditions are adverse

Alfonso P\'erez-Escudero, Gonzalo G. de Polavieja

arxiv:1403.7478 v1 · 2014-03-28 · q-bio.NC · q-bio.PE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{TCJBXGZXCDWOYE3W46IWKJRBDQ}

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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	2026-05-18T02:55:19.553470Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

98921b9b3710ecec1376e7916526211c0069cf9d1b88bc5d91f849c5f7c0901b

Aliases

arxiv: 1403.7478 · arxiv_version: 1403.7478v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1403.7478 · pith_short_12: TCJBXGZXCDWO · pith_short_16: TCJBXGZXCDWOYE3W · pith_short_8: TCJBXGZX

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/TCJBXGZXCDWOYE3W46IWKJRBDQ \
  | 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: 98921b9b3710ecec1376e7916526211c0069cf9d1b88bc5d91f849c5f7c0901b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
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    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "q-bio.PE"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.NC",
    "submitted_at": "2014-03-28T18:34:13Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b97a1f1cdaffd2d82e6a895bdbe895e68ca09c0074ec6ea67df0fea797efb0f8"
  },
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  "source": {
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  }
}