Re: [math-fun] Benford-type law for OEIS ???
Actually it's virtually certain that the leading digits of OEIS terms of mathy sequences do *not* occur equally often. But maybe Benford's law holds without change. --Dan I wrote: << It might be interesting to know the statistics of leading digits of math-based sequences on OEIS. Maybe only a negligible fraction could be called non-math-based. But it might be good to exclude certain types of sequences, such as the decimal digits of a constant. And it might be also good to exclude low enough numbers, due to the high frequency of very low numbers. But I'm not sure what would be a best way to go about this. It may well turn out that were such a count performed, the fractions of 1,...,9 would be so close to equal that a reasonable hypothesis is that they're equally distributed. Opinions?
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