• ShakeThatYam@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    In real life distributions you are always going to have situations where you fill up the bigger digits last, so it becomes less likely they show up. The best example of this is the population of cities. For cities between 100k and 999k you’ll have a larger number of cities with 100k-300k because cities of those sizes are smaller and more common.

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      1 year ago

      Benford’s law is about the leading digit, so it doesn’t matter if the numbers are rounded or not.