Indeed. It's quite non-intuitive, but the naive assumption that the last digits are randomly distributed is simply wrong. Here is a V.I. Arnold essay about Benf

Indeed. It's quite non-intuitive, but the naive assumption that the last digits are randomly distributed is simply wrong. Here is a V.I. Arnold essay about Benford's Law: http://www.math.ru.nl/~mueger/arnold.pdf http://www.math.ru.nl/~mueger/arnold.pdf