Benford’s Law

Benford's Law

It turns out that in statistics and lists, the digit “1″ appears almost three times more often than it should. Benford’s Law describes this wacky phenomenon.

Another good find by Mr. Harman. He keeps coming up with awesome material, but never updates his blog! Soon I’m going to make him write a few guest posts here.

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