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It depends on where you start decreasing from. If you start at 0 and subtract 1 at a time you'll still follow Benford's Law. If you start at 999 and go down, yo
by verycleanteeth 15y ago
It depends on where you start decreasing from. If you start at 0 and subtract 1 at a time you'll still follow Benford's Law. If you start at 999 and go down, you'll see a reverse curve that begins the process of righting itself again once it goes into the negatives.
- seasoup 15y agoTrue, I was considering things like decreasing populations. Example, if you take all cities/countries on the planet with declining population and plot their current population, I would expect the reverse of Benford's law. Wish I had time to test this hypotheses :)