[ExI] Benford's Law

[Michael LaTorra]

"Benford's Law is the observation that most “real-world” data is not
uniformly distributed - in fact, the probability that the first digit is a
“1” is almost one-third, rather than the expected one-ninth. The reason for
this is that the *logarithm* of most real-world data is uniformly
distributed. I find this mildly fascinating." - David Dalrymple
http://blog.davidad.net/
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