On the Probability that a Random Integer has Initial Digit A

DOI10.2307/2314636MaRDI QIDQ5525015zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Betty J. Flehinger

Publication date 1966

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.2307/2314636

zbMATH Keywords

probability theory

Cited in

(15)

• Distributions of floating point numbers
• The logarithmic distribution of leading digits and finitely additive measures
• An explanation of the first digit phenomenon
• On Benford's law to variable base
• The asymptotic distribution of elements in automatic sequences
• A note on the distributions of \((\log n) \bmod 1\)
• Contents/Inhaltsverzeichnis
• A basic theory of Benford's law
• From uniform distributions to Benford's law
• Uniform tag sequences
• Mesures invariantes par translation, classes de Dynkin first-digit problem. (Translation invariant measures; first-digit problem Dynkin classes)
• Survey article: on weighted densities and their connection with the first digit phenomenon
• The primes perform a Benford dance
• On Benford's law
• On roundoff error distributions in floating point and logarithmic arithmetic

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