[HTML][HTML] The Newcomb–Benford law: Scale invariance and a simple Markov process based on it

A Burgos, A Santos - American Journal of Physics, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
In the late 19th century, an astronomer and mathematician visits his institution's library and
consults a table of logarithms to perform certain astronomical calculations. As on previous …

Using residual heat maps to visualise Benford's multi-digit law

B Hull, A Long, IG Hughes - European Journal of Physics, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
It has been known for more than a century that, counter to one's intuition, the frequency of
occurrence of the first significant digit in a very large number of numerical data sets is …

[PDF][PDF] The Newcomb--Benford law: Do physicists use more frequently the key than the key ?

A Burgos, A Santos - arxiv e-prints, 2021 - researchgate.net
The Newcomb–Benford law, also known as the first-digit law, gives the probability
distribution associated with the first digit of a dataset, so that the first significant digit has a …