• @spaduf
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    610 months ago

    Does anybody know if this is a feature of a decimal system?

    • @lunarul@lemmy.world
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      310 months ago

      The distribution shown in this post is for base 10, but Benford’s Law includes distributions for other bases too. The wiki article linked in another comment goes into detail on that too.

    • @davidgro@lemmy.world
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      210 months ago

      The percentages change. At the lower end, in binary every number that isn’t 0 itself starts with a 1.

      This fact is actually used to save one bit in the format that computers usually use to store floating point (fractional instead of integer) numbers.