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Apparently, Benford rediscovered the law that Simon Newcomb wrote about in 1881: http://www.jstor.org/pss/2369148 http://www.jstor.org/pss/2369148
by papaf 17y ago
Apparently, Benford rediscovered the law that Simon Newcomb wrote about in 1881:
http://www.jstor.org/pss/2369148 http://www.jstor.org/pss/2369148
- lmkg 17y agoIt happens. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stiglers_law_of_eponymy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stiglers_law_of_eponymy
- gjm11 17y agoYou're missing an apostrophe. Will HN linkify this correctly? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stiglers_law_of_eponymy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stiglers_law_of_eponymy [EDIT: no, it won't, and I suspect the parent included the apostrophe and HN removed it. So let's try a different way: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stigler%27s_law_of_eponymy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stigler%27s_law_of_eponymy ... yup, that works.] It's pleasing to note that the law applies to itself; Stigler was not its discoverer, and of course he was well aware of this when naming it.