benford's_law.n.01

'benford's_law.n.01'

[benford's_law.n.01] as in: a law used by auditors to identify fictitious populations of numbers; applies to any population of numbers derived from other numbers

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Examples:
Benford's law holds that 30% of the time the first non-zero digit of a derived number will be 1 and it will be 9 only 4.6%

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of the time