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- Benford's Law and Zipf's Law. - With the view to the eerie but uniform distribution of digits of randomly selected numbers, it comes as a great surprise that, if the numbers under investigation are not entirely random but somehow socially or naturally related, the distribution of the first digit is not uniform.
- Geometrical Interpretation and Generation of Benford Sets - A new approach to Benford's Law, with software and datasets.
- Following Benford's Law, or Looking Out for No.1 - Dr.Theodore P. Hill asks his mathematics students at the Georgia Institute of Technology to go home and either flip a coin 200 times and record the results, or merely pretend to flip a coin and fake 200 results.
- Benford's Law - The audit technology is now known as Digital Analysis (DA). It tests for abnormalities in the digit patterns and abnormal number duplication in corporate data.
- BenfordWiz - Software which produces and analyses Benford Sets. Hexagonal and Octagonal numbers are also included in the data sets.
Wikipedia Articles
- Benford's law of controversy - Benford's law of controversy,"EFF Quotes Collection 19.6", Electronic Frontier Foundation, 9 April 2001 as established by University of California at Irvine physicist and science-fiction author Gregory Benford"Quotations: Computer Laws", SysProg, retrieved 10 March 2007 in the 1980 novel Timescape, states:
- Benford's law - Benford's law, also called the first-digit law, states that in lists of numbers from many real-life sources of data, the leading digit is 1 almost one third of the time, and larger numbers occur as the leading digit with less and less frequency as they grow in ...
- Frank Benford - Frank Albert Benford, Jr., (29 May 1883 Johnstown, Pennsylvania - 1948) was an American electrical engineer and physicist best known for rediscovering and generalizing Benford's Law, a statistical statement about the occurrence of digits in lists of data.
- Ted Hill - Theodore P. Hill is an American mathematician who developed Benford's law into a powerful tool used to seek out tax fraud.