The Distribution of Leading Significant Digits

DOI10.1093/IMANUM/2.4.407MaRDI QIDQ3969784zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Peter R. Turner

Publication date 1982

Published in IMA Journal of Numerical Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1093/imanum/2.4.407

zbMATH Keywords

Gaussian eliminationarithmetic operationsdistribution of leading significant digitsinvariance to scaling

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Direct numerical methods for linear systems and matrix inversion (65F05) Roundoff error (65G50)

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• Error Bounds for Linear Recurrence Relations
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• How fast increasing powers of a continuous random variable converge to Benford's law

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