Huh. Never heard of Benford's Law before, but somehow it seemed instinctively obvious to me. Possibly from working with lots of numbers in my job, or from playing computer games which often have exponential growth in points or resource counts as a form of progression in the game mechanic.Brian Peacock wrote: ↑Sun Oct 04, 2020 8:21 amNumberphile have a good explanation of it in terms of probabilities, but the fact that it works whatever base you're in is still a bit... you know... wow!
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... or because you're a natural born mathematical genius PS.PsychoSerenity wrote:Huh. Never heard of Benford's Law before, but somehow it seemed instinctively obvious to me. Possibly from working with lots of numbers in my job, or from playing computer games which often have exponential growth in points or resource counts as a form of progression in the game mechanic.Brian Peacock wrote: ↑Sun Oct 04, 2020 8:21 amNumberphile have a good explanation of it in terms of probabilities, but the fact that it works whatever base you're in is still a bit... you know... wow!
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Indeed ....since it eluded a great many of rather clever fellows and is considered non-intuitive. Good read ..
https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1093383.pdfBenford’s Law and why the integers are not what we think they are:
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If you enjoy solving problems this page will generate an infinite supply for everything from arithmetic to calculus to linear algebra and statistics:
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The entire universe is a problem generator...
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Biden's votes don't conform to Benford's Law...
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that's because they are fake votes!
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I only liked it when the numbers had units after them. Like in chemistry and math. You were measuring something.
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The brain mathematically abstracts in 11 dimensions, apparently.
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My brain barely works in 3.
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I hear ya, sister.
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Watch the darts video above for a whiff of interdimensionalityception.
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