The Significant-Digit Phenomenon

DOI10.2307/2974952MaRDI QIDQ4845744zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Theodore P. Hill

Publication date 7 February 1996

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

Full work available at URL https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/rgp_rsr/29

zbMATH Keywords

base- invarianceBenford's lawscale-invariancesignificant-digit problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Normal numbers, radix expansions, Pisot numbers, Salem numbers, good lattice points, etc. (11K16) Probabilistic measure theory (60A10) Distribution theory (60E99)

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