Monday, May 14, 2007
Numbers....
Did you know that approximately 30% of all street numbers begin with the digit '1', while only 4.6% begin with the digit '9'? And that the same percentages apply to all manner of phenomena? It can even be used to check for electoral fraud, or for corruption of datasets! See Marginal Revolution for more discussion of Benford's Law.
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