An Application of Fourier Series to the Most Significant Digit Problem

DOI10.2307/2975136MaRDI QIDQ4838591zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jeff Boyle

Publication date 18 September 1995

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.2307/2975136

zbMATH Keywords

uniform distributionBenford's lawsums mod 1floating-point mantissae of productsfloating-point mantissae of quotientslog distribution

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Limit theorems in probability theory (60F99) Probability measures on groups or semigroups, Fourier transforms, factorization (60B15) General theory of distribution modulo (1) (11K06)

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