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An easy very easy way to fool this would be to introduce a random non zero distribution aka salt to every datum.

• ano-ther 3y ago
  Wouldn’t that just shuffle the distribution of the digits rather than creating Benford’s (power) law distribution?
  • pclmulqdq 3y ago
    This would confound the trailing digit portion of a Benford's-law-style analysis, but not the leading digits.