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The distribution of l.s.d. and its implications for computer design
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 August 2016
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I was interested to see in a recent issue of the Gazette a note from Hoare and Wright [1] about the distribution of leading significant digits, l.s.d., and “Benford’s Law” that this distribution is logarithmic. This distribution has fascinated many people since Benford’s original observation [2] in 1938 of the dirty pages at the beginning of a book of log tables.
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