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Benford’s Law
Posted on February 4th, 2007 No comments
From “The First-Digit Phenomenon” by T. P. Hill, American Scientist, July-August 1998One of the most counterintuitive mathematical laws that is still easy to understand. Basically, for any list of numbers, most numbers will begin with “1″, and the fewest numbers will begin with “9″. This natural law is great help when hunting for fraudulent or manufactured data.[link]