Linear Digressions
Linear Digressions
Ben Jaffe and Katie Malone
Benford's Law
17 minutes Posted Oct 15, 2015 at 8:30 pm.
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Sometimes numbers are... weird. Benford's Law is a favorite example of this for us--it's a law that governs the distribution of the first digit in certain types of numbers. As it turns out, if you're looking up the length of a river, the population of a country, the price of a stock... not all first digits are created equal.