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Benford's Law is related to statistics and may also be called "The first Digit Law" . It states that the first digits of a natural set of numbers follow a certain trend, example; The "% frequency" of number "1" as the first digit or leding digit is "%30.10" ; number "2" is "%17,61"....etc.

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Benford's Law and Zipf's Law. With the view to the eerie but uniform distribution of digits of randomly selected numbers, it comes as a great surprise that, if the numbers under investigation are not entirely random but somehow socially or naturally related, the distribution of the fi www.cut-the-knot.com/do_you_know/zipfLaw.html

Following Benford's Law, or Looking Out for No.1 Dr.Theodore P. Hill asks his mathematics students at the Georgia Institute of Technology to go home and either flip a coin 200 times and record the results, or merely pretend to flip a coin and fake 200 results. www.math.yorku.ca/Who/Faculty/Brettler/bc_98/benford.html

Benford's Law The audit technology is now known as Digital Analysis (DA). It tests for abnormalities in the digit patterns and abnormal number duplication in corporate data. www.fm.co.za/97/1010/toptail/letta.htm

Geometrical Interpretation and Generation of Benford Sets A new approach to Benford's Law, with software and datasets. www.geocities.com/timeparadox/elmuhsi.htm

BenfordWiz Software which produces and analyses Benford Sets. Hexagonal and Octagonal numbers are also included in the data sets. www.members.tripod.com/benfordwiz