benford's law

Noun
  1. A law used by auditors to identify fictitious populations of numbers;
    Applies to any population of numbers derived from other numbers (synset 105883999)
    "Benford's law holds that 30% of the time the first non-zero digit of a derived number will be 1 and it will be 9 only 4.6% of the time"
    is a type of: law, law of nature - a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature

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