Newcomb–Benford law
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The Newcomb–Benford law is a statistical principle stating that in many naturally occurring datasets, the leading digits are distributed logarithmically, with smaller digits (especially 1) appearing as the first digit more frequently than larger ones.
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Gregory Benford
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Simon Newcomb
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