Pith Number

pith:VV6PJHS2

pith:2012:VV6PJHS2X36LNQQDIV5EY2WHTE

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Head/tail Breaks: A New Classification Scheme for Data with a Heavy-tailed Distribution

Bin Jiang

arxiv:1209.2801 v1 · 2012-09-13 · physics.data-an · nlin.AO · physics.soc-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VV6PJHS2X36LNQQDIV5EY2WHTE}

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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	2026-05-18T03:09:59.876995Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ad7cf49e5abefcb6c203457a4c6ac799142c1520a0bf91d224006e3fcee78fb7

Aliases

arxiv: 1209.2801 · arxiv_version: 1209.2801v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1209.2801 · pith_short_12: VV6PJHS2X36L · pith_short_16: VV6PJHS2X36LNQQD · pith_short_8: VV6PJHS2

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VV6PJHS2X36LNQQDIV5EY2WHTE \
  | 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: ad7cf49e5abefcb6c203457a4c6ac799142c1520a0bf91d224006e3fcee78fb7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a99604487e7d1497b600a58d99622a55227ca0614a15e7454d579a36529dd405",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "nlin.AO",
      "physics.soc-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.data-an",
    "submitted_at": "2012-09-13T07:36:15Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1e9f7139a1cbbcd81be5c296269d20c42fc0ea66286d8a40b638a761e36d2b69"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1209.2801",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}