Benford's Law and Zipf's Law. - http://www.cut-the-knot.org/do_you_know/zipfLaw.shtml
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. |
BenfordWiz - http://www.members.tripod.com/benfordwiz/
Software which produces and analyses Benford Sets. Hexagonal and Octagonal numbers are also included in the data sets. |
Following Benford's Law, or Looking Out for No.1 - http://www.math.yorku.ca/Who/Faculty/Brettler/bc_98/benford.html
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. |