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The Benford law and the Zipf law
05/10/2018
Take your favourite newspaper and write down all the numbers you can find in it. Then take the first, leftmost digit of each number. This is called the most significative digit (MSD). What is the frequency you expect to observe for these digits? If your answer is that all digits from 1 to 9 have the same probability, please think again!
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