The Law of Anomalous Numbers¶
Benford, F. (1938). The Law of Anomalous Numbers.
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- Benford's Law
- Frank Benford (1938) documented this across twenty heterogeneous tables — river lengths, populations, molecular weights, physical constants, street addresses — pooling ~20,000 numbers whose first digits tracked the curve closely, after Simon Newcomb had noted in 1881 that the early pages of logarithm books (those beginning with 1) were more worn than the later ones
This sourceBenford's own twenty tables (A to T) of 20,229 pooled numbers, whose averaged first-digit frequencies -- 0.306, 0.185 down to 0.047 -- track the logarithmic law almost exactly.
- Frank Benford (1938) documented this across twenty heterogeneous tables — river lengths, populations, molecular weights, physical constants, street addresses — pooling ~20,000 numbers whose first digits tracked the curve closely, after Simon Newcomb had noted in 1881 that the early pages of logarithm books (those beginning with 1) were more worn than the later ones
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