The Math Club
The Math Club
Pete and Noah
One More Time: The Oddities of Benford's Law
45 minutes Posted Jan 28, 2026 at 12:00 pm.
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If we asked all of our listeners to look up the current population of their hometown and email us just the first digit of that number, what do you expect we'd find? Would the digits be evenly distributed, or would some be more common than others? In this episode, we look at Benford's Law, and learn some surprising truths about the distribution of numbers in natural data sets.