Shao, Lijing; Ma, Bo-Qiang - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 389 (2010) 16, pp. 3109-3116
The occurrence of the nonzero leftmost digit, i.e., 1,2,…,9, of numbers from many real world sources is not uniformly distributed as one might naively expect, but instead, the nature favors smaller ones according to a logarithmic distribution, named Benford’s law. We investigate three kinds...