Benford's law was empirically tested against the numbers (up to the 10th digit) generated by a number of important distributions, including the uniform distribution, the exponential distribution, the normal distribution, and others. The uniform distribution, as might be expected, does not obey Benford's law. In contrast, the ratio distribution of two uniform distributions is well-described by B. OverviewBenford's law, also known as the Newcomb–Benford law, the law of anomalous numbers, or the first-digit law, is an observation that in many real-life sets of numerical, the is likely to be small. I. A set of numbers is said to satisfy Benford's law if the leading digit d (d ∈ {1,. , 9}) occurs with The leading digits in such a set thus have the following distribution: The quantity .
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