The Surprising Accuracy of Benford's Law in Mathematics

Cai, ZD; Faust, M; Hildebrand, AJ; Li, JX; Zhang, Y

Cai, ZD (corresponding author), Univ Penn, Dept Math, David Rittenhouse Lab, 209 South 33rd St, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA.

AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL MONTHLY, 2020; 127 (3): 217

Abstract

Benford's law is an empirical "law" governing the frequency of leading digits in numerical data sets. Surprisingly, for mathematical sequences the pre......

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