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Benford's law (en.wikipedia.org)

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Benford's law, also known as the Newcomb–Benford law, the law of anomalous numbers, or the first-digit law, is an observation that in many real-life sets of numerical data, the leading digit is likely to be small.[1] In sets that obey the law, the number 1 appears as the leading significant digit about 30% of the time, while 9 appears as the leading significant digit less than 5% of the time.

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[–] Dialectical_Specialist@quokk.au 1 points 3 days ago

This is just a cheap zipf's law