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http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/3040| Title: | The First Digit 1 |
| Authors: | Srivastava, Tanya Kaushal |
| Keywords: | Numbers Benford’s Law Height of mountains |
| Issue Date: | 2013 |
| Publisher: | Springer Link |
| Citation: | Resonance, 18(12), pp.1073-1085. |
| Abstract: | Benford’s Law or The First Digit Law as it is commonly known has been a fascination to many generations. This counter-intuitive law proposes that given a sequence of numbers (usually from a data set like length of rivers, height of mountains, populations of nations or any source of data from real life), the first digit is ‘1’ roughtly 30% of the time. Many mathematical sequences, such as Fibonacci sequences also follow Benford’s Law. Benford’s Law has some interesting applications, especially in fraud detection! |
| URI: | https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12045-013-0135-y http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/3040 |
| Appears in Collections: | Research Articles |
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