When Benford’s law is exact
The Endeavour 2025-04-12
Summary:
Eight years ago I wrote a blog post on the Leading digits of powers of 2. In that post I said that Benford’s law gives remarkably good predictions for the distribution of leading digits of 2n. In this post I’ll make that statement stronger. A sequence obeys Benford’s law, in base 10, if the proportion […]
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