Benford’s Law Strikes Back: No Simple Explanation in Sight for Mathematical Gem

The widely known phenomenon called Benford's Law continues to defy attempts at an easy derivation. Here, Berger and Hill briefly review recurring flaws in "back-of-the-envelope" explanations of the law, and then analyzes in more detail some of the recently published attempts, many of...

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Veröffentlicht in:	The Mathematical intelligencer 2011-03, Vol.33 (1), p.85-91
Hauptverfasser:	Berger, Arno, Hill, Theodore P.
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Errors Mathematical analysis Mathematical and Computational Engineering Mathematical and Computational Physics Mathematical functions Mathematical Methods in Physics Mathematics Mathematics and Statistics Numerical and Computational Physics Probability Simulation Theoretical
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