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Benford's Law is related to statistics and may also be called "The first Digit Law" . It states that the first digits of a natural set of numbers follow a certain trend, example; The "% frequency" of number "1" as the first digit or leding digit is "%30.10" ; number "2" is "%17,61"....etc.

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• Benford's Law and Zipf's Law.

  http://www.cut-the-knot.org/do_you_know/zipfLaw.shtml
  With the view to the eerie but uniform distribution of digits of randomly selected numbers, it comes as a great surprise that, if the numbers under investigation are not entirely random but somehow socially or naturally related, the distribution of the first digit is not uniform.

• BenfordWiz

  http://www.members.tripod.com/benfordwiz/
  Software which produces and analyses Benford Sets. Hexagonal and Octagonal numbers are also included in the data sets.

• Following Benford's Law, or Looking Out for No.1

  http://www.math.yorku.ca/Who/Faculty/Brettler/bc_98/benford.html
  Dr.Theodore P. Hill asks his mathematics students at the Georgia Institute of Technology to go home and either flip a coin 200 times and record the results, or merely pretend to flip a coin and fake 200 results.

• Fun and Fraud Detection with Benford's Law

  http://www.kirix.com/blog/2008/07/22/fun-and-fraud-detection-with-benfords-law/
  Explains the law, includes a video demonstration and some reader responses.

• Wikipedia: Benford's Law

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benford%27s_law
  Encyclopedia article on this law, its history, explanations and applications.

 

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