Pith Number

pith:YM5BLE42

pith:2017:YM5BLE42WACDSVAYO35FYCUTOA

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Large-Scale Experiment on the Importance of Social Learning and Unimodality in the Wisdom of the Crowd

Alex Pentland, Dhaval Adjodah, Peter Krafft, Shi Kai Chong, Yan Leng

arxiv:1712.10284 v1 · 2017-12-29 · cs.SI · physics.soc-ph · stat.AP

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YM5BLE42WACDSVAYO35FYCUTOA}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:27:03.514212Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c33a15939ab00439541876fa5c0a937006df5726e53991da6f65f1ffbf8a52ce

Aliases

arxiv: 1712.10284 · arxiv_version: 1712.10284v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1712.10284 · pith_short_12: YM5BLE42WACD · pith_short_16: YM5BLE42WACDSVAY · pith_short_8: YM5BLE42

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/YM5BLE42WACDSVAYO35FYCUTOA \
  | 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: c33a15939ab00439541876fa5c0a937006df5726e53991da6f65f1ffbf8a52ce

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7993ef873369b3bc0c35d97c860fe35c57bf761befcb435fcb91ed1eb2c454c5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.soc-ph",
      "stat.AP"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SI",
    "submitted_at": "2017-12-29T17:22:15Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4e340d59d6bb6889f70cf7c7ab2ab904933c1208f826d3988a4344afac7c0f60"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1712.10284",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}