benford in A Sentence

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    So, let's not try to beat Benford;

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    Benford showed that the first digit in a“naturally occurring” number is much more likely to be 1 rather than any other digit.

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    Benford collected a large number of naturally occurring data(including population, areas of rivers, physical constants, numbers from newspaper reports and so on) and showed that this empirical law is respected.

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    Besides movies, his Foundation and Robot stories have inspired other derivative works of science fiction literature, many by well-known and established authors such as Roger MacBride Allen, Greg Bear, Gregory Benford, David Brin, and Donald Kingsbury.

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