A concise proof of Benford’s law

This article presents a concise proof of the famous Benford’s law when the distribution has a Riemann integrable probability density function and provides a criterion to judge whether a distribution obeys the law. The proof is intuitive and elegant, accessible to anyone with basic knowledge of calcu...

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Published in:Fundamental Research
Main Authors: Luohan Wang, Bo-Qiang Ma
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: KeAi Communications Co. Ltd. 2024-07-01
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2667325823000043