Benford's Law
The count of a thing can end sooner than later, eh?
Number of counts:
100
1,000
10,000
Chance of each count stopping:
1 in
10
100
1,000
10,000
Leading
Digit
Leading
Digit
Tally
Leading
Digit
Percent
Documented
Huge Dataset
Percent
*
1
310
31%
30.1%
2
194
19.4%
17.6%
3
96
9.6%
12.5%
4
101
10.1%
9.7%
5
80
8%
7.9%
6
66
6.6%
6.7%
7
60
6%
5.8%
8
45
4.5%
5.1%
9
48
4.8%
4.6%
Classic ASP vbscript source code
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