Comment by JackFr
1 year ago
A 300 year old log table! What an opportunity to confirm Benford’s Law!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benford's_law
“The discovery of Benford's law goes back to 1881, when the Canadian-American astronomer Simon Newcomb noticed that in logarithm tables the earlier pages (that started with 1) were much more worn than the other pages.”
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