On the Distribution of First Significant Figures

DOI10.2307/2316424MaRDI QIDQ5570557zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ralph Raimi

Publication date 1969

Published in The American Mathematical Monthly (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.2307/2316424

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statistics

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(7)

• Distributions of floating point numbers
• The logarithmic distribution of leading digits and finitely additive measures
• An explanation of the first digit phenomenon
• Uniform distribution, Benford's law and scale-invariance
• On Benford's law
• On roundoff error distributions in floating point and logarithmic arithmetic
• First digit phenomenon and ergodic theory

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