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Daily Archive October 5th, 2011

Do cents follow Benford’s Law?

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Benford’s law is an amazing thing. If you know the probability distribution that classes of “natural” numbers should have, you can detect where people might be faking data: phony tax returns, bogus scientific studies, etc.