Benford's Law

Created: 2020-11-09T12:37:37-06:00

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• In naturally ocurring data sets the leading digit of a number is most likely to be low.
• There is an inverse power relationship between how common the lowest symbol is to the highest symbol.
• For example the leading digit has a 30% chance to be 1, but a 5% chance to be 9.
• If all symbols were uniformly distributed then they have an ~11% chance to be present.