Science

Software which produces and analyses Benford Sets. Hexagonal and Octagonal numbers are also included in the data sets.

With the view to the eerie but uniform distribution of digits of randomly selected numbers, it comes as a great surprise that, if the numbers under investigation are not entirely random but somehow socially or naturally related, the distribution of the first digit is not uniform.

Encyclopedia article on this law, its history, explanations and applications.

Explains the law, includes a video demonstration and some reader responses.