Pith Number

pith:VDD6ZSOL

pith:2016:VDD6ZSOL25WUIIESX7NDX7MRDM

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Generalized Entropies and the Similarity of Texts

Eduardo G. Altmann, Laercio Dias, Martin Gerlach

arxiv:1611.03596 v1 · 2016-11-11 · physics.soc-ph · cs.CL

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VDD6ZSOL25WUIIESX7NDX7MRDM}

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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	2026-05-18T00:50:51.901061Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a8c7ecc9cbd76d442092bfda3bfd911b0f8ef697832da03f114986afb030bc27

Aliases

arxiv: 1611.03596 · arxiv_version: 1611.03596v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1611.03596 · pith_short_12: VDD6ZSOL25WU · pith_short_16: VDD6ZSOL25WUIIES · pith_short_8: VDD6ZSOL

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/VDD6ZSOL25WUIIESX7NDX7MRDM \
  | 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: a8c7ecc9cbd76d442092bfda3bfd911b0f8ef697832da03f114986afb030bc27

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "28e18d3a38ca59c5a14a5e9f744cb55a2c53623815ce577466f2ed39ebd06213",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CL"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.soc-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2016-11-11T06:36:53Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "cbea235b1af5eb7dce4ce59c3aad9776dbc4906ad7b218ab146c7d09c3c6180a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1611.03596",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}