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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


SamplesBenford'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









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