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Benford's Law predicts the first digit will be 1 about 30% of the time, not 50% of the time. Your method also seems to depend heavily on the choice of starting
by jcarreiro 15y ago
Benford's Law predicts the first digit will be 1 about 30% of the time, not 50% of the time.
Your method also seems to depend heavily on the choice of starting and ending points. If I chose 1-99, then only 1/10th of the numbers in the interval will start with 1. So why choose 199 and not 99?
- synnik 15y agoIt is not "my method". Just an explanation of why the law seems intuitive to me. I expected everyone to extrapolate out from my examples for other ending points, and which point, yes, the % for the digit of "1" would drop, and approach that 30% rate. I just selected end points to illustrate the concept. I think this place is getting a little too literal. :)