Note on the Frequency of Use of the Different Digits in Natural Numbers

Newcomb, S. (1881). Note on the Frequency of Use of the Different Digits in Natural Numbers. American Journal of Mathematics.

Type

Journal article

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

1881

DOI

10.2307/2369148

Link

https://doi.org/10.2307/2369148

Cited by

1 citation across 1 artifact.

Domain-specific

• Benford's Law
  • First noticed by Newcomb (1881) from the differential wear on pages of logarithm books and documented by Benford (1938) across twenty heterogeneous datasets — river lengths, population sizes, molecular weights, physical constants — the law now serves as a fraud-detection and data-validation instrument in forensic accounting, election auditing, and scientific-integrity review

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