benford's law

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   a law used by auditors to identify fictitious populations of numbers; applies to any population of numbers derived from other numbers

   “Benford's law holds that 30% of the time the first non-zero digit of a derived number will be 1 and it will be 9 only 4.6% of the time”

   Broaderlaw

Questions about benford's law

What does benford's law mean?

benford's law means "a law used by auditors to identify fictitious populations of numbers; applies to any population of numbers derived from other numbers".

Is benford's law a common word?

benford's law is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.