Searching reveals lots of previous discussion on Benford's law on here, so I won't give all the links. Of course, it's an interesting observation, so it's worth

Searching reveals lots of previous discussion on Benford's law on here, so I won't give all the links. Of course, it's an interesting observation, so it's worth advertising every so often. Here are some hacker-newsers testing files in their home directories: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1076534 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1076534