What is the meaning of Benford's law?

noun

  • A law used by auditors to identify fictitious populations of numbers; applies to any population of numbers derived from other numbers.
    • usage: "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"
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