ooli@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agotil: Benford's law: real life number are not evenly disribued, 1 occur 30% of the timelemmy.worldimagemessage-square11fedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10
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minus-squaressboomman@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agoFrom what I understand it works like this. Let’s say you have a series of numbers that represent real life data. In general the first number of all of these numbers will be a 1, 30% of the time.
minus-squareidiomaddict@feddit.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agoIt applies to situations with more than one order of magnitude being counted, such as d20 rolls, 55% of which will start with a 1.
From what I understand it works like this.
Let’s say you have a series of numbers that represent real life data. In general the first number of all of these numbers will be a 1, 30% of the time.
Such as “1000 rolls”
It applies to situations with more than one order of magnitude being counted, such as d20 rolls, 55% of which will start with a 1.