Benford's Law Distribution
Benford's law is an empirical description of leading digits. The predictions form a distribution.
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For a random set of integers, Benford's law predicts how many will have a particular leading digit. While it may seem reasonable to expect a uniform distribution, in practice a prediction can be made. This is an empirical distribution rather than a theoretical one.
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