A Comprehensive Summary of the Benford's Law Phenomenon: On the Unequal Spread of Digits Within Scientific and Typical Data
Alex Ely Kossovsky
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A Comprehensive Summary of the Benford's Law Phenomenon: On the Unequal Spread of Digits Within Scientific and Typical Data

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Our digital language system writes numbers by the convenient utilisation of the ten digits 0 to 9 in much the same way as the English language system writes sentences and books by the convenient utilisation of the 26 letters A to Z. Against all common sense or intuition, the spread of these ten digits within numbers of random data is not uniform, but rather highly uneven. Benford's Law predicts that the first digit on the left-most side of numbers is proportioned between all possible digits 1 to 9 approximately according to LOG(1 + 1/digit), such that occurrences of low digits such as 1, 2, an...