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		Numbers follow a surprising law of digits, and scientists can't explain why (physorg.com)
		3 points by hariis on July 29, 2009 \| hide \| past \| favorite \| 1 comment

tokenadult on July 29, 2009 [–]

There have been other posts about this before on HN, I'm pretty sure. The Wikipedia article

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benford%27s_law

reviews some of the literature on this observation.

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