Meaning of Benford's law in English

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  1. Noun

    Benford's law

    Definitions

    1. a law used by auditors to identify fictitious populations of numbers

    Examples

    • « applies to any population of numbers derived from other numbers »
    • « Binford's law holds that 30% of the time the first non-zero digit of a derived number will be 1 and it will be 9 only »

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