Benford's Law

Linear Digressions

• Episode: Benford's Law
• Website: Linear Digressions
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• Duration: 00:17:42
• Published: 2015-10-16 05:30

Sometimes numbers are... weird. Benford's Law is a favorite example of this for us--it's a law that governs the distribution of the first digit in certain types of numbers. As it turns out, if you're looking up the length of a river, the population of a country, the price of a stock... not all first digits are created equal.