Benford’s Law And A Theory of Everything
31st January 2011
In 1938, the physicist Frank Benford made an extraordinary discovery about numbers. He found that in many lists of numbers drawn from real data, the leading digit is far more likely to be a 1 than a 9. In fact, the distribution of first digits follows a logarithmic law. So the first digit is likely to be 1 about 30 per cent of time while the number 9 appears only five per cent of the time.
February 1st, 2011 at 12:12
Tim, broken link.
February 1st, 2011 at 13:29
I hate it when that happens. Fixed now.