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A 300 year old log table! What an opportunity to confirm Benford’s Law!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benford's_law

“The discovery of Benford's law goes back to 1881, when the Canadian-American astronomer Simon Newcomb noticed that in logarithm tables the earlier pages (that started with 1) were much more worn than the other pages.”




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