From: Ray Tayek <rtayek@ca.rr.com>

http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/05/10/1322207

<mailto:stephen.schaubach@wellsfargo.com>stephen.schaubach writes "Spanish Mathematicians have <http://www.physorg.com/news160994102.html>discovered a new pattern in primes that surprisingly has gone unnoticed until now. 'They found that the distribution of the leading digit in the prime number sequence can be described by a generalization of <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benford%27s_law>Benford's law. ...

As the others have said, this is not new at all. As could have been discovered with only the most elementary research. A simple google search for ``benfords law primes'' points straight to two pages which says almost everything you need to know about the topic. primes.utm.edu/notes/faq/BenfordsLaw.htm primes.utm.edu/glossary/xpage/BenfordsLaw.html In particular they have references to proofs with varying levels of assumptions, culminating with Hill's 1996 paper, which I think finally put the matter to bed. Phil