Pith Number

pith:W6RS27ZL

pith:2007:W6RS27ZLCORZLWHEPB2Z2O3NSV

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Toward a statistical mechanics of four letter words

Greg J. Stephens, William Bialek

arxiv:0801.0253 v1 · 2007-12-31 · q-bio.NC · cs.CL · physics.data-an · physics.soc-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{W6RS27ZLCORZLWHEPB2Z2O3NSV}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-07-05T10:12:53.788970Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b7a32d7f2b13a395d8e478759d3b6d955aacfd8784efeece0d9d4ff919066a9c

Aliases

arxiv: 0801.0253 · arxiv_version: 0801.0253v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0801.0253 · pith_short_12: W6RS27ZLCORZ · pith_short_16: W6RS27ZLCORZLWHE · pith_short_8: W6RS27ZL

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/W6RS27ZLCORZLWHEPB2Z2O3NSV \
  | 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: b7a32d7f2b13a395d8e478759d3b6d955aacfd8784efeece0d9d4ff919066a9c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8af7ed5e021d25ddd83f4025b544d55826b65e90b8da06c3e9d6cc393043b807",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CL",
      "physics.data-an",
      "physics.soc-ph"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.NC",
    "submitted_at": "2007-12-31T23:51:51Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9063c02218abb2771109cd37fa33d92d5791b372b6cdfb791153fe1e7dd38c52"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0801.0253",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}