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Benford's Law
- RiderOfGiraffes 16y agoThis is a new posting, with some interesting data. Even so, Benford's Law has been posted here many, many times: http://searchyc.com/benford http://searchyc.com/benford
- Ruudjah 16y agoThere's also sorting algorhitms based on this law iirc. Can';t find the link in 5 mins googling. Anyone?
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- TylerBrock 16y agoWhen Madoff was busted, my co-worker and I put his returns into a spreadsheet. After applying Benford's law we saw that they were obviosly faked. Pretty cool if you ask me. Alo, the IRS uses this to determine who to audit by applying it to you tax returns.
- VladRussian 16y agoone of the many faces of scale-invariancy :)