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		o11c 11 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Liverpool's title win has completed a mysterious F... The common definition of Benford's Law is written in terms of base 10 (or 100, 1000, etc. for subsequent digits), but the underlying principle applies to any base (I'm pretty sure this includes non-integer bases, though I'm not sure about negative bases).

adammarples 11 months ago [–]

No matter what base you use, you're using a numeral system that has an inherent logarithmic distribution of one column per order of magnitude

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