Pith Number

pith:XZ2E6DGT

pith:2012:XZ2E6DGTVCCF2TABDQQIC47ITS

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Power-law distributions in binned empirical data

Aaron Clauset, Yogesh Virkar

arxiv:1208.3524 v2 · 2012-08-17 · physics.data-an · physics.soc-ph · stat.AP · stat.ME

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XZ2E6DGTVCCF2TABDQQIC47ITS}

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First computed	2026-05-18T02:54:21.752615Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

be744f0cd3a8845d4c011c208173e89cacd4100853b5619c8286364420f7266b

Aliases

arxiv: 1208.3524 · arxiv_version: 1208.3524v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1208.3524 · pith_short_12: XZ2E6DGTVCCF · pith_short_16: XZ2E6DGTVCCF2TAB · pith_short_8: XZ2E6DGT

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/XZ2E6DGTVCCF2TABDQQIC47ITS \
  | 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: be744f0cd3a8845d4c011c208173e89cacd4100853b5619c8286364420f7266b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4ea187090982c9979553f83a586d1a9bc80b00907fc80e41377d279acd61ee9b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.soc-ph",
      "stat.AP",
      "stat.ME"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.data-an",
    "submitted_at": "2012-08-17T03:00:57Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ae4a740b17ac631f554576df780749ffa155ffaad3f3ef5a3de6f12170a57682"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1208.3524",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}