Individual_Divide333

Individual_Divide333 t1_iymleaf wrote

Benford’s Law

I immediately thought of Benford’s law Considering the months as their numbers 1, 2, 3..

“A logarithmic scale bar. Picking a random x position uniformly on this number line, roughly 30% of the time the first digit of the number will be 1. A set of numbers is said to satisfy Benford's law if the leading digit d (d ∈ {1, ..., 9}) occurs with probability[10]”

A really cool episode of Connected: The Hidden Science of Everything on Netflix, explains the law really well, and has IRS help explain (elusively) how it’s used to detect fraud in real life.

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