Benford's Law is related to statistics and may also be called "The first Digit Law" . It states that the first digits of a natural set of numbers follow a certain trend, example; The "% frequency" of number "1" as the first digit or leding digit is "%30.10" ; number "2" is "%17,61"....etc.
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- Following Benford's Law, or Looking Out for No.1 Dr.Theodore P. Hill asks his mathematics students at the Georgia Institute of Technology to go home and either flip a coin 200 times and record the results, or merely pretend to flip a coin and fake 200 results.
- BenfordWiz Software which produces and analyses Benford Sets. Hexagonal and Octagonal numbers are also included in the data sets.
- Benford's Law and Zipf's Law. With the view to the eerie but uniform distribution of digits of randomly selected numbers, it comes as a great surprise that, if the numbers under investigation are not entirely random but somehow socially or naturally related, the distribution of the first digit is not uniform.
- Wikipedia: Benford's Law Encyclopedia article on this law, its history, explanations and applications.
- Fun and Fraud Detection with Benford's Law Explains the law, includes a video demonstration and some reader responses.