8 Jul
2004
8 Jul
'04
9:09 p.m.
At 10:34 PM 7/7/2004, Jud McCranie wrote:
At 01:02 PM 7/6/2004, Robert G. Wilson v wrote:
Et al,
Seriously, how close to the Benford Law does the OEIS follow?
It is pretty close. Using a slightly old data set and ignoring zeros, I get:
d count % Benford expected %
1 1084878 32.0 30.1 2 582611 17.2 17.6 3 403338 11.9 12.5 4 322835 9.5 9.7 5 256521 7.6 7.9 6 225789 6.7 6.7 7 189952 5.6 5.8 8 172542 5.1 5.1 9 151760 4.5 4.6
And doing a chi-squared test on the data shows that it is an astronomically good fit.