Benford's Law

The count of a thing can end sooner than later, eh?

Number of counts:
Chance of each count stopping: 1 in
Leading
Digit
Leading
Digit
Tally
Leading
Digit
Percent
Documented
Huge Dataset
Percent*
1 338 33.8% 30.1%
2 178 17.8% 17.6%
3 111 11.1% 12.5%
4 82 8.2% 9.7%
5 74 7.4% 7.9%
6 57 5.7% 6.7%
7 66 6.6% 5.8%
8 53 5.3% 5.1%
9 41 4.1% 4.6%

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*Wikipedia