English noun: Benford's law | |||
1. | Benford's law (cognition) a law used by auditors to identify fictitious populations of numbers; applies to any population of numbers derived from other numbers | ||
Samples | Benford's law holds that 30% of the time the first non-zero digit of a derived number will be 1 and it will be 9 only 4.6% of the time. | ||
Broader (hypernym) | law, law of nature | ||