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foo101 | 6 years ago

Can you provide a concrete example of a range of numbers that you think obeys Benford's law?

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jsweojtj|6 years ago

This is exactly the question I was going to ask.

I wrote: > The leading digits of a uniform distribution does not follow Benford's law.

And @EGreg wrote: > I’m sorry to tell you this, but you inadvertently misled people with that empirical test. This just goes to show that we have to check our assumptions, as scientists or mathematicians trying to prove a statement. (Even with empirical tests :)

So, what specific range of the uniform distribution yields leading digits that follows Benford's law?

EGreg|6 years ago

Literally any range with min = 0 and where the max isn’t a power of 10.

For example 0-300

One third of numbers are evenly distributed: 0-100

One third starts with 1: 100-200

One third starts with 2: 200-300

Do you understand?