[ExI] Benford's Law

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Michael quoted: :
"Benford's Law is the observation that most “real-world” data is not uniformly 
distributed 
[...]"

Terry Tao made several mathematical points here
http://terrytao.wordpress.com/2009/07/03/benfords-law-zipfs-law-and-the-pareto-
distribution/

Lubos also wrote something
http://motls.blogspot.com/2010/05/first-digit-is-most-likely-one-benfords.
html

and the ArXiv has a recent paper about that, saying that the "law" seems 
general and significant
http://arxiv.org/abs/1005.0660