[ExI] Anders on io9

[Bill Hibbard]

> From: Anders Sandberg <anders at aleph.se>
> Subject: Re: [ExI] Anders on io9
> . . .
> Currently I am making a math paper (besides the things I *should* work on, of course) about the statistics of mistyping numbers. Here is a hint: if you randomly change a digit in a number, does it become larger, smaller or stay roughly the same?

I think it becomes larger. Since randomly chosen
numbers scale geometrically small leading digits
are more likely. Random errors in small digits are
likely to make them larger.