Pith Number

pith:V3THSKU5

pith:2017:V3THSKU5V2ZHLHTFWQMKVQI5C2

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Benford's law first significant digit and distribution distances for testing the reliability of financial reports in developing countries

Jing Shi, Marcel Ausloos, Tingting Zhu

arxiv:1712.00131 v1 · 2017-11-30 · q-fin.ST · cond-mat.stat-mech · stat.AP

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\pithnumber{V3THSKU5V2ZHLHTFWQMKVQI5C2}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:29:07.230637Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

aee6792a9daeb2759e65b418aac11d1684d3593f5fbf382d67212170ac533c03

Aliases

arxiv: 1712.00131 · arxiv_version: 1712.00131v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1712.00131 · pith_short_12: V3THSKU5V2ZH · pith_short_16: V3THSKU5V2ZHLHTF · pith_short_8: V3THSKU5

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/V3THSKU5V2ZHLHTFWQMKVQI5C2 \
  | 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: aee6792a9daeb2759e65b418aac11d1684d3593f5fbf382d67212170ac533c03

Canonical record JSON

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      "stat.AP"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-fin.ST",
    "submitted_at": "2017-11-30T23:59:17Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2d64a8ba0f48e0737349058dc82d4c8a266a05704c98b0ae874a294876a2e925"
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